Atonement
Last night I watched Atonement for Saturday Movie Night®.
Just thinking about it makes me sleepy and I begin to yawn. It's really too bad because the story line had such enormous potential and some good actors but, in the end, the screenplay was a mess.
Without giving away any specifics (though I would hope to dissuade you from wasting your money on the rental), the movie was about a young girl who tells a lie regarding her older sister's love-interest, that ends up negatively altering the course of all of their lives. It sounds somewhat interesting, doesn't it?
Yeah. Not so much.
I was so excited to watch it all day and, at the end of the day, all it delivered was a non-pharmaceutical equivalent to Nytol®.
The movie was extremely slow-paced, with seemingly irrelevant detours that left you wondering what the heck the point was to the particular scene. The movie also had some chronological challenges where it would jump forward or backward in time, inexplicably, and it would take you a few moments to orient yourself to where you were in the time continuum. That didn't bother me as much because I was able to follow it, however, the problem was that there didn't always seem to be a purpose for it, other than the filmmaker trying to obfuscate the storyline as some sort of attempt at "artistic genius".
The long and short of it is; don't waste your time.