Ulysse Wurtz

Don’t pay for it, watch it with no expectations with some friends in the media room, because it’s fun to giggle together. There a few funny moments. That’s all. No need to concentrate on any story, there is virtually none. Dialogues , if any, are trivial and well, surprisingly you may still experience an entertaining moment to watch Clooney and Pitt together, and a few cute cuts and scenes of New York and NY Chinatown in a winter atmosphere. Quickly forgotten.

Historic background doesn’t compensate for an obvious very small budget soap opera-is production. Looks like the entire series was produced in 5-6 locations. Same forest, same houses, same beach, same decor. Slow, amateurish, often utterly unrealistic dialogues and scenes. Boring, very boring. At times almost a farce, like a cheap bad comedy, implausible and unbelievable if you figure that the underlying story is true . Sad. The underlying story may be worth narrating, yet perhaps a theater setting would have been more appropriate. For a theater performance well more suited. This is not cinema. Period.

Great script, great acting, riveting story, excellent music….and a narrative that is a sad as it is true of typical every day corruption in Italy….