Film Reviews by MR

Despite reading other reviews thought I'd watch this. Wish I hadn't bothered. Half way through I really didn't care too much about any of the characters as they were so unemotional and bland so you didn't like or dislike them.

Story line I felt was unbelievable as no parents would behave as they did. Nicole Kidman does well in the role as she can portray a cold, unfeeling person. Farrell did some strange things and came over as a pretty sad character.

My partner left the room half way through. My father stuck with it but we both declared it was a waste of time.!

After reading the reviews from others I was reasonably looking forward to seeing it with my partner and father. All of us found this film muddled with storylines darting off here and there but not really contributing much to the main story.

Also timelines went back and forth which I don't have a problem with normally however with the other muddled stories going on we found this added to the confusion of the film.

What a waste of good sets, period costumes, and Bill Nighy. It could have been so much better but I felt it tried to be too clever.

Although my father is elderly ... he still has a sharpish mind and commented that the film was "A waste of time. I had to agree.