Robin Gregory

I love the organic feel of this movie. The acting is tremendous, the story compelling and unsentimental, film making done with brilliant restraint.

Extraordinary footage. Profoundly important film for our times. We humans must remember that we are part of the sea. Highly recommended.

There something to admire about this film. The technology, editing, and martial arts are over-the-top. The idea of representing a multi-verse is cool. But the frantic cutaways left me befuddled, like I was missing the punchline. Conflict/combat. Conflict/combat. Conflict/combat. Like gaming. I couldn't capture any sense of meaning, connection, or sympathy for characters. I love what Stephen Kessler says about blockbuster phenomena like this, in a newspaper column: He's looking for "intimate, intelligent, unsensational stories... told by artists with the courage to explore difficult subjects and complex human behavior with nuanced sensibility and moral ambiguity." I agree with the rest of his piece. More and more movies are failing to deliver art. Instead they appeal to the senses, the ego, pride, and tribalism.