Source: tvguide.com
9. It’s a Mess of a Movie
There’s an old story about Walt Disney; he wanted to leave a bunch of Orange Trees standing in the center of Disneyland, so he marked the ones he wanted to keep with green ribbons and all the ones he wanted taken down with red. But the bulldozer driver was colorblind, so he cut down the wrong set of trees. That is the greatest metaphor for how this movie was edited that exists in this world.
Half the scenes in this movie feel completely unnecessary, and it seems that key moments got cut out. A solid ten minutes are dream sequences, one of which was essentially an after-credits scene shoved into the center of the film like rancid cream in an expired Oreo.
The pacing is nightmarish. Any screenwriter will be reduced to angry tears by the third act in itself which lasts a full hour and is entirely fight scenes. We show scenes, cut away from them for ten minutes, and then we cut back and pick up exactly where the first scene left off.
The scene at the grave where Character A drops dirt onto Character B’s coffin apparently takes place over the course of weeks? Is…is that vague enough to avoid spoilers?
