Erin Pitre

Kind of like a genius with zero charisma, EEAAO is brilliant but could not make me really enjoy being around it. I watched it in two sittings, which is a sure sign that a movie is too long for its own good and that I was emotionally indifferent at least for the first half of this film. Movies these days have a bad habit of not managing the emotional pace of the movie. They are just on, go go go, all the time, and everything is epic. The problem is that when everything is epic, nothing is epic. EEAAO falls victim to this pattern; while there is a wind up and cool down at the beginning and end, the entire middle of the movie maintains a universe-threatening, frantic pace that no human being can stay engaged with over such a length of time. That said, it did have its moments and its messages, and I did have a misty-eyed moment toward the end of the movie. It's definitely not "nothing, nowhere, none of the time," more like "something, somewhere, sometimes."