So I go to the website and download the film. And it is everything you said--good acting, nice locations, fine costumes, (mediocre special effects, though), very cinematic in its shot design, etc.
But oh, dear God! I aged a year watching it, it was so darn s-l-o-o-o-w! It's 55+ minutes long, but seemed absolutely interminable. It could easily have been half of that running time. The scenes just went on and on and on. I found myself saying over and over "Cut!" The wracked dialogue, which is seriously over-written, was so tortured that it felt like watching Ingmar Bergman do Star Wars. So although the production values and the acting rate right up there, the script does not. And the pacing is terrible. It nearly put me to sleep.
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