There's that moment in the movie where I went, "oh that's how it's going to end, leaving us to speculate on the little clues and answers it gave, which allows us to formulate our own conclusions to the mystery?" I would have accepted that there and then, except the movie keeps going on, reminding us that this has an indulgently luxurious pacing, that could have preferably been a tight mystery tale if it was edited down from it's unnecessary running time of 2 hours and 26 minutes. I actually did want to see how the mysterious premise plays out until the end, but it started to feel a little like a chore in trying to get there. Do not watch this movie if you are the impatient type.
Gore Verbinski is a visionary Director that is able to give us very beautiful imagery that could be put up in a museum as art. Then he mixes that in a narrative that has a very ominous tone that makes us suspicious of just about everything we see in the movie. Repeat that formula throughout multiple scenes, over and over and over again. If it wasn't for the gorgeous visuals, I probably would have been satisfied in just reading a full plot synopsis for the intriguing premise. If I did that however, my eyes wouldn't have been subjugated to the unnerving and disturbing imagery, that perfectly captures the unnerving and disturbing story. This movie goes into some creepy and dark places, that's for sure.
Ambitious in both the visuals and in the thematic story level, there's a lot that I actually do admire about this movie, and it is undeniably thought provoking. The problem is that it felt overly indulgent enough to the point that I have no desire to revisit this movie.
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