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There's no doubt this is a visually impressive films, and it is competently put together, but overall it lacks meaningful storytelling depth. The first act was the most interesting, but then it suddenly loses its tense atmosphere through the middle, and lurches into a hasty final act that just doesn't stick the landing.

I say all this as someone who is a big fan of del Toro's work, and would watch a film purely because he made it.

The new Netflix film Apostle is 2 hours of my life I'll never get back again. Unlikeable characters, gratuitous violence, clunky and pretentious dialogue, plot incoherence, and if the pacing was any slower it'd be going backwards. A film so bad only professional critics will like it.

Pretentious rubbish.

Pacing is terrible, story is almost non existent, and the dialogue (when it does happen) is average at best.

This feels like a series of stylistically beautiful visuals (which is why I gave it a 3 and not a 0) strung together, almost like a big budget film school project, but without any storytelling substance to tie it all together and make it something good.

I really get the sense that she's watched a lot of Tarantino films, and then tried to make one of her own without actually understanding what it is that makes a Tarantino film so good.