a total overwrought, bloated mess. despite its uncalled for run time it manages to say nothing, have no point of view, and somehow no characterisation. it’s not political enough, not biographical enough, and not dramatic enough. with three and a half hours of film and fifty million sub-plots or vagaries it manages to neither resolve or explore any of them. take every oscar away from it now.
there may be a good film buried here but there desperately needed to…