Interesting, absorbing character study, but narratively flabby. 4/5
The Hurt Locker
Elizaphanian
“I come not from Heaven, but from Essex.”
Interesting, absorbing character study, but narratively flabby. 4/5
It would have also been nice if it managed to humanise non-Americans a little more.
My take on the narrative incoherence was that it was a film about the war in Iraq, whose narrative has also been incoherent.
Preston