This movie was actually so weird and borderline bad I had to make a review for it. While there are some genuinely good scenes (especially towards the end), most of it was just way too slow. I understand wanting to make it seem dramatic but the slow paced scenes are only good and worthwhile when it is backed up by normal paced scenes. For example, chocolate is good--but you only know it's good when you haven't had a lot of it. If you ate a gallon of chocolate then you would most likely feel sick and not like it. Or water. If you had a bunch of water you would be sick of it, but if you had water after the gallon of chocolate the water would feel like it was blessed from the heavens. The few scenes that were normally paced and not a character staring off into the distance for 30 seconds felt like water from the heavens. Aside from the slow pacing of it the violence was good. It seemed like they put enough of the budget into making the violence seem realistic which I could appreciate. I also find the relationship between [Julian and Mai to be weird] but maybe I just don't understand the movie that well. And finally, the acting was good (I suppose). It wasn't horrible but it's not something super memorable.
Review by MaxBlockedParent2023-12-16T04:39:26Z— updated 2023-12-20T02:23:42Z
This movie was actually so weird and borderline bad I had to make a review for it. While there are some genuinely good scenes (especially towards the end), most of it was just way too slow. I understand wanting to make it seem dramatic but the slow paced scenes are only good and worthwhile when it is backed up by normal paced scenes. For example, chocolate is good--but you only know it's good when you haven't had a lot of it. If you ate a gallon of chocolate then you would most likely feel sick and not like it. Or water. If you had a bunch of water you would be sick of it, but if you had water after the gallon of chocolate the water would feel like it was blessed from the heavens. The few scenes that were normally paced and not a character staring off into the distance for 30 seconds felt like water from the heavens.
Aside from the slow pacing of it the violence was good. It seemed like they put enough of the budget into making the violence seem realistic which I could appreciate. I also find the relationship between [Julian and Mai to be weird] but maybe I just don't understand the movie that well. And finally, the acting was good (I suppose). It wasn't horrible but it's not something super memorable.