Part of me really wanted to like this and was trying to wait for the best possible time to give it a chance, but part of me really wasn’t bothered about seeing it at all. The opening titles gave me a pleasant thrill and raised my hopes about the movie, and it’s a long time since Peter Weir let me down; but in the end, I was pretty bored by this movie. The Oscar-winning cinematography and sound live up to the accolade, but aside from the top-notch craftmanship of the whole thing there really isn’t a lot more to sink one’s teeth into. I can’t imagine how it ever worked as a novel.