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Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs  I also thought it was uniformly brilliant and incredibly tense.
I'm not an authority on the matter, but I imagine the reality of such situation would involve a lot of negotiating and high-level political meetings. |
I get their point, that all of this stuff is hard work and very political etc etc, but they made that point about ten minutes in and then kept hammering on at it. It takes them until the end of the film to take any action more complicated than "I'll ask someone more powerful than me". There are episodes of
24 that have dealt with similar issues in entertaining ways in half the time. I can take a film full of a chatter, too, but the film has no real characters either: "Grumpy woman", "Nice man", "Bad woman". The entire film could have filled five interesting minutes in a decent film with a proper budget, instead of being a cheapie shot in three or four rooms with actors paid for an afternoon each (followed by a weekend in a dusty village).