zipirovich

There's some beautiful scenery, and the elephants are so cool! In fact, the elephants in this movie are much more talented than the humans. From the latter species there was no acting to speak of. I've just read in the trivia for this movie that puppets had to be used in the movie, for safety and animal preservation reasons. But I rather felt that it was the human actors were replaced with puppets -- they were just as believable as cardboard figurines would be. I understand that this was made for a noble cause, and I would have liked to applaud the effort... but it was just so poorly executed.

I regret wasting my time on watching this pretense of a movie. It's so slow, extremely boring, and absolutely pointless. It's starts out as something that could be interestingly developed, but that doesn't happen. A typical example of a movie that could've been, but alas it wasn't. Various subplots in the end either get lost or are left unexplained and underdeveloped. Watching absent-minded Ethan Hawke in a coat for 80 minutes -- that's pretty much this movie is. Granted that the two female leads (Kristen Scott Thomas and Joanna Kulig) looked good and acted well, but that's not enough. Especially in the case of Kristen Scott Thomas's character -- I mean seriously, what the heck was that about?