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when he won't sign

posted 18 years ago by fishpoo
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Hello. I have just given this movie 8 out of 10.
I nearly gave it 7 though, because I got so fed up with the last 45 minutes or so. It was great up until he started to loose it and we just had to watch him go to yet another hospital where he wouldn't be treated. I liked everything up until then and I liked the last 2 minutes or so, but I wish they hadn't bothered with all that, cos up until then the movie was constantly progressing in some way and that made it good. I'm sure the writer/director just wanted to squeeze in this bit about a mean doctor who doesn't really care about patients, which he shouldn't have done. We'd already had all that earlier on.

That's what I thought anyway.

Loved the way the light kept going off in the hallway of the flats and also the way the ambulance scenes were filmed, cos you could see out the front.

Can't be bothered to read through my message for typos or lack of sense. sorry.

[–] psdhart 15 years ago

I agree it was a bit long
Some critics panned the film for its excessive length. Thus, Duane Byrge in the Hollywood Reporter remarks that "at two hours and 34 minutes, we, seemingly, also endure his agony",while Kyle Smith in the New York Post writes that "It's supposed to be about a Kafkaesque experience. Instead, it is a Kafkaesque experience".
Other critics also remark the length of the film, but don't consider it to be a problem: Roger Ebert finds that "it is a long night and a long film, but not a slow one" and Philip Kennicott notes that "it's long, but it's also very real and worth every minute".

[–] rex_ilusivii 14 years ago

It's definitely worth every minute. It took me some time to adjust to its slow pace, but after he got to the hospital and things started to complicate, it felt almost like an action movie to me. I had no problems with its length.

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