In my long lifetime of watching bad movies, I must have seen one worse than this, but I am basing that statement purely on the laws of chance. I can’t actually name a worse film without reviewing my notes. On a scale of 1-10, neither the script nor the cinematography reaches the scale at all.
It has the deadly combination of being boring, pretentious, slow and technically incompetent. At several points in the film I thought my player had frozen, but no – that was the actual pacing of the film. It’s so slow that Tarkovsky would have been shouting “get on with it!” if he could have lived to see it. Fortunately for him, he did not live long enough to endure such suffering, so WW2 remained the worst experience of his life.
The only thing that keeps me from immediately declaring it as the worst ever is the absence of Jeff Fahey. If the filmmakers could just have been thinking of posterity and hired Fahey, it could have been a contender.
And even the nude scene sucks.
So… Did you like it or not?
Don’t hold back, Scoop.
Tell us how you really feel.