long and boring
there, i said it
shareBoring... I thought so for the first 45 or so minutes, almost stopped watching. Then it started to fit together for me and I got enthralled.
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Yeah, it was, but like the other poster, about an hour and 20 minutes in it finally got interesting. Funny, that's when most movies would be ending. Still, this movie should have been labeled a drama, not enough horror or thriller aspects to be considered part of the genre.
shareHey Spixe, I was gonna write that myself on this board. For the first 90 minutes or so, this felt like a standard vampire movie following the standard rules of vampires in the movies. All cliches, nothing that had not been done before in hundreds of vampires movies, and done better before. I thought I would learn nothing new about vampires in the whole movie. Plus the first 90 minutes seemed so slow.
Then, the screenwriter introduced the sucriants and the brotherhood and a few other original concepts that were tangential to the vampirism. Then the action scenes started and some plot revelations and Clara turned into a cool action hero and we learned exactly what Clara was protecting Eleanor from.
And I remembered that Neil Jordan knows how to make a good film. But he paced this movie too poorly and unevenly to qualify it as a great movie. I rate Byzantium at 7/10 stars.
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Ha! I second that opinion! Great film!!
shareThe Dark Knight Rises was the last film I saw before this. IMO that was a long and boring film, I found Byzantium more interesting and a lot easier to watch.
Come to think of it, a Vampire Batman would make a very interesting film. He is half there with bats and nocturnality.
Excuse my English please, not a native speaker.
Two people were killed in the first twelve minutes. How much quicker does the action need to start for you?!?
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