This movie is... Different. Very different. Probably not like anything you have ever seen. Why? Because of the type of its story, but also because of the way it coexists with the whole mystic/supernatural themes, that are crucial in here.
If you cut all the "weird" things out from here, you basically get a story about 2 people, lonely man and lonely woman, who meet in some strange conditions, start talking, getting to know each other and then realize their goals are very similar and they might be able to accomplish them together. This sounds interesting, right?
And it definitely is. So, where's the problem? There are a few of them.
The biggest problem of this movie is its conclusion. I mean... For me, as someone with cold head, it doesn't really make sense that our characters decide to do what they decide to do. It feels so unnatural for them and it's very easy to predict, it's not gonna work. And I know they are both desperate, but it's still not enough for me to make such decision. Finally it ends exactly the way I expected... The second real problem here is the fact, that we know basically nothing about the character played by Tilda Swinton. All the stories in this movie are told by Idris Elba's character. I get the fact, that because of his mystic origin he might be seen as more interesting, but we have to know something more about one of the main characters, if we know SO MUCH about the other main character, come on...
Overally, I would say this movie was definitely interesting, but after some time it became very predictable and it disappointed me deeply. Still, it wasn't bad though.
If you cut all the "weird" things out from here, you basically get a story about 2 people, lonely man and lonely woman, who meet in some strange conditions, start talking, getting to know each other and then realize their goals are very similar and they might be able to accomplish them together. This sounds interesting, right?
And it definitely is. So, where's the problem? There are a few of them.
The biggest problem of this movie is its conclusion. I mean... For me, as someone with cold head, it doesn't really make sense that our characters decide to do what they decide to do. It feels so unnatural for them and it's very easy to predict, it's not gonna work. And I know they are both desperate, but it's still not enough for me to make such decision. Finally it ends exactly the way I expected... The second real problem here is the fact, that we know basically nothing about the character played by Tilda Swinton. All the stories in this movie are told by Idris Elba's character. I get the fact, that because of his mystic origin he might be seen as more interesting, but we have to know something more about one of the main characters, if we know SO MUCH about the other main character, come on...
Overally, I would say this movie was definitely interesting, but after some time it became very predictable and it disappointed me deeply. Still, it wasn't bad though.