Nathan's Kingdom

If you wish to kill time! probably this movie not even the right choice. 😬

Acting pretty bad but that's just the script. Terrible writing! The intro is interesting, some stupid beginning scenes but that happens. 10mins in...starts to look stupid. I give it some stars for the idea and location scenes. Someone has to get credit for the good parts, but not many of that. So, screenplay- bad. Acting - not so good.

I do not write reviews but I will make an exception this time because it is easily one of the movies that you should not watch. The rating is quite misleading. Waste of time.

The concept had potential. The cinematography was relatively good and the artwork in "The Book" was incredibly good-- and was the part I found most fascinating about the story.

However, the actor playing the autistic brother wasn't convincing in the part, his characterization very wooden. The actress tried to pull off her part well but she wasn't given much to work with.

Which brings us to the story line. It's more of a long, drawn out slice of life film without much in the way of point or purpose. There's no real plot, no climax, no evident point to the ending. It's not that it wasn't interesting; it did hold my attention all the way through. All through the story I was expecting it to make some kind of point. But in the end it just didn't deliver much of anything.

I've seen several films like this. Potential... potential... potential... fizzle... thud. Roll credits. I've said it before: Start with a good script, or don't make the film.

But again, kudos to the artist on the book. I kept thinking all the way through the film: if this were real, with a manager the guy could make a living in the art world. Evidently the actual artist does. For me, that book was the redeeming factor of the film. The rest of it... 5 star mediocre (barely).

Yup, it's one of them, terrible acting, turgid dialogue and pointless scenes. Two stars for having a pop.