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Noomi Rapace inexplicably is allowed to feign a cringe worthy, patchy hillbilly type, deep Southern- hick accent, which interspersed with occasional French "merci" and random Italian phrases like "ciao bella" for nor good reason!

By the end of the film, her terrible preparation and poor performance as an actor is such a dreadful distraction. This film should never, ever have been allowed to proceed with her in this role. It ought to have been canned and never released. It isn't even bad in a funny way.

Henry Golding and Sam Neil should have kept their pay and blocked the film from being released, they could have sighted gross negligence on the director, casting director and producers part.

The uttlery mediocre screenplay might be explained by a misplaced, arrogant and eventually desperate hope that a superb source material (the original book) paired with the talented Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs, supplemented with shots of coastal views would be enough. It was never going to be enough.

Poor writing, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Lucia Zucchetti and Gareth C. Scales, was the crumbling foundation for this project.

Strikingly, the audience experience is akin to watching 6 hours of unedited documentary footage where a middle-aged couple forgot to, or didn't know how to switch off their GoPro. Albeit with a postcard perfect frame or two, bled grey with stagnant, unrivetting, gloomy dialogue, a flashback or two, and tonnes of tedious exposition.

No aspect of this film makes up for nor can carry the burden of this seemingly endless 2-hour-long running time (only?!) - time that one will never get back.

Tragically for the amazingly resilient real-life heroes of Salt Path, the painfully slow pace of Rebecca Lenkiewicz's lacklustre writing and the astoundingly unskilled editing by two paid professionals (Lucia Zucchetti and Gareth C. Scales) only makes viewers urge these characters on to whatever their end, good or bad - put everyone out of their misery - anything to make this film end sooner!

NOTE TO PRODUCTION; There must have opportunities between the table read stage (gosh, perhaps there wasn't one..) And deep inside the post-production bunkers when each and every head of department surely realised you were throwing good money after bad by not cutting your losses and canning this. What a waste.

*Credit and respect to the actors for completing this. Gosh. They trusted you!!!

This is such a dreary and poorly paced film.. It goes on and on and the protagonist is miserable and uninteresting. The dialogue is dull and the one or two areas with a little whit, are spoiled because it drags on and on.. Then there are some pathetic attempts at "hilarious gross-out comedy" which are cringey because it's 35 year old actors making fart and snot jokes.. Also the brother and sister can't act like brother and sister, they're creepily intimate. It's gross. I'm actually really annoyed that I wasted 45 mins of my time watching this dreary nonsense.

The strangely positive reviews, and the talented cast mislead me into believing this would a worthwhile film. It is not worthwhile.