four relentless hours of uncomfortable scenes and boring monologues.
Excluding Kurosawa, every movie I've seen over three hours suffers from bad writing and editing, and this took the cake. The characters and stories were bland, any character development happens off-screen.The movie is a stream of the bad and boring parts of Brody's life. Attempts to use tragedy to make the movie interesting instead felt disingenuous and pandering.
Instead, half the film reel was used for sex scenes, and the other half for static shots of irrelevant stories that droned on monotonously. What a waste of good film.