robinalers

I will be honest, this felt like I wasted my time. The cinematography isn't noteworthy, the filming and camera work feels more like the director wanted to come across as artsy and fancy but it didn't serve extra purpose, it didn't add to the moments or emotions. The characters are stale and tame and the story is simply non-existent.

The acting is good and I like how they try to portray the characters. They do their best, but there is just nothing there. There is nothing happening. Again, it feels like the director wanted to portray charicatures rather than humans just for the sake of their own view.

Sometimes, people seem to forget that a film (much like a book) is first and foremost a story. And a story needs to be about something, it needs to tell something. This tells nothing, it has no story. It's a sequence of scenes leading up to deception after deception. There is no story being told here, no emotions being shown or being drawn from the viewer. No start nor an end.

And for those saying it's a drama. A drama always holds a story and always gets you to care about the characters. A drama is about taking you to understand characters, people, emotions, actions, their lives. There needs to be true friction, whether internal or external. You, the viewer, never care about the characters and the friction that does exist is so out of the blue, you are left to think 'Surely there's more to it? Surely something will happen?'

But no. There is nothing to it and nothing ever happens.

It is utter boredom.

Though the visuals are as times bsolutely stunning, I thought the movie as a whole was utterly disappointing given its current (7.1) rating.

I've read some reviews here and found it very odd that both the bad and the negative reviews focus so much on racial diversity, yet not enough on the movie itself.

The voice acting wasn't on the level you'd expect given the cast and the story was incredibly generic-which can be fine, but then the rest has to blow you away.

Next to that, the two main characters had a very odd relationship; oftentimes it felt more in the brink of a starting romantic relationship than a father and daughter relationship. Their bikkering almost feels like flirting and I truly believe that if you'd had put two characters of similar age in this film, without changing anything, it would've been more believable as a story

The little girl was also utterly annoying, she had no flaws in her character at all and the wisdom of a 50 year old at the age of, like, 11. Schooling adults who have more life experience left, right and centre, and easily drawing conclusions that adults seem to not understand or be capable of drawing... It makes her character just not likeable and believable from the very first moment. There's nothing innocent, playful or childish about her character; which (even for an orphan) just doesn't seem logical or right.

It's alright to watch as a movie though; you won't feel it totally wasted your time. But that's about as good as it gets.