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Sweeping vistas of Canada sit in for Montana in Oscar-winning cinematography. Story is old-timey epic that mostly survives all the drama…
What’s more:
The producers must have been excited by the prospect of making a new Gone With The Wind. That’s exactly what this feels like: a grand, sweeping epic of love and loss. You can practically see them writing out the copy as the film was being made.
But far be it from me to say that’s a bad goal. I think there’s a place for epic movies, and for the most part this succeeds quite well. It’s over-dramatic often, and smacks of Hollywood a few times, but the story largely stays entertaining and the acting is quite good. The WWI sequences are particularly fine.
One thing I will say: I don’t know how I was expecting this to end, but this ending wasn’t it. I don’t think anything that happens after the two-hour mark in a movie can reasonably be called abrupt, but it does seem like they suddenly realized they didn’t have any more film canisters with them so they better wrap in a hurry.
In the end, it doesn’t hugely matter what you think about any of this; it’s obvious why you’re here: pictures of that hunky Brad Pitt. Well, here’s one more:
Poster:
Trailer:
Bechdel Test:
FAIL