I wanted to love this film but this is a film where dialogues are vital. However, that music, which cannot hold a candle to classical music or any type of fusion pretentious music, blazing up left right and centre to the point where in the final act, horribly muffles and drowns key dialogues being bantered back and forth main characters, breaks your patience and you thus lose interest in the film!
For somebody who is very good at innovating new realms visually, Nolan seems to be brilliantly handicapped sonically in the whole sound department. When the music is too loud that even when you increase the volume on your headphones to hopefully and seamlessly hear dialogues in a dialogue-driven film but sadly realise that it would never help; so to ensure you are hearing what you think are hearing, turn on subtitles... that's where it annoys and loses me entirely!
Go absolutely bananas on Dark Knight and the likes but not on a movie of this nature, please don't!
Technically, yes, breathtaking but it is not a visual effects film. It is a chapter from history, so even if it may not be tad dull as a facts-driven documentary, it still needs to be equally engaging and informative. And those who understand English, would want to hear the dialogues decently and clearly, in order to thus appreciate the whole package!
Imagine too much subwoofer rumble when listening to Beethoven's Ninth or Mahler's Resurrection symphonies or even Sibelius' Violin Concerto... The horror is unimaginable even to suppose such a tragedy!
Balance is everything; SIr Nolan just needs to learn about moderation!
This is not a film where visually the film can propel forth with just music alone. The redemption / closure of most characters on screen is through key dialogues in a dialogue-driven film. If you invest close to 3 hours of your life for a film, you would definitely want to experience closure in a preferred manner - without losing patience over loud noisy garbled music and then to rely on subtitles that cover the lower half of the screen ruining the visual splendour spectacularly!
If you have seen Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny, in the final act, that main lady character keeps yapping endlessly. That was the first time I was ever annoyed with a British character on film or tv show. Imagine that spread forth gloriously for close to 20-25 minutes (Indy's was just about 3 minutes or so). Yeah, not ideal!
They could have fixed it a little for home media but I guess that wasn't done either.
Also the constant jumping back and forth may work for an action film, but not for a film / subject of this nature.
Ergo, technically brilliant but overall, brilliantly annoying! Watch it once, only if you get cheaper tickets or home media / online price because you would be disappointed if you pay full price!
I loved every other Nolan film, including his first short film but this is the first one that makes me go meh and leave it at that because technically, it has some good spots and that too just here and there but overall, I MAY watch it just once more.
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