For a running time of just over two hours, sitting through it sure felt like a good three-hour.
Somewhere in the first hour the director Terrence Malick took too much liberty with just shooting landscapes and nature. There was a long stretch for what must have been more than twenty minutes of just background music and nature, depicting how the Earth was formed and changed and grew into what it is today - or at least that's how I depicted it.
I do not doubt the genius of Malick for every single shot in this movie, and I do mean every single one of them, was a moving art. All those shots he put in, like those of the sun or even in space, they were all gorgeous and spectacular. And I would have had even more respect for him if every shot was unadulterated.
Until he included dinosaurs. That just sucked all the credibility of a CGI-free movie.
But for the small cast that consisted of Jessica Chastain, Sean Penn, and most notably, Brad Pitt, they were great and produced very emotional performances. Considering how the movie was made or shot, and still able to convey all the messages, I thought it was a perfect marriage between the performances and the direction.
Also not forgetting the younger cast members, I thought Hunter McCracken and Laramie Eppler were simply brilliant. Especially McCracken who was able to make me feel fear.
However, as an entertainment factor; for the reasons I go to a cinema; I just didn't agree with the artistry direction in this film. Otherwise I would have rated it higher.
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