xavier-merlin

I already had not so high hopes of seeing a good movie when I had seen several reviews of people but still I wanted to see the movie being that the story in itself is quite interesting enough. Sadly, I got it wrong, the movie destroyed the story altogether. After several embarrassing yawning around 45 minutes into the movie with little action going on, unbelievable silly and pointless conversations, horrible bad acting we decided to leave the theater. Even the supposedly jokes are missing their effect. As far as I know my wife never left the theater before the end of a movie, so this movie is really that bad(!). A real disaster. My advice: go see another movie, this is a complete waste of time and a disgrace for the men involved who did the real job saving the "monuments" way back then ...

I had very great expectations about this movie but boy was this film a big disappointment. Let me further explain what I dislike about this movie. The strong point of the movie is that it is based upon real events. The film itself however really lacks the building up of the drama. There were some rare good scenes particularly towards the end of the movie. A missed opportunity. It could have been far more exciting if we sometimes got a view of the world seen thru the eyes of the main character. The moment he says he only sees one half of what he sees then this fact is not very convincing to us as we do no see what he sees at that very instance.