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2 stars - Should have been called "How To Ruin A Good Story" (Spoilers)


Basically, this could have been an enjoyable movie with romance and action. Instead, it was totally ruined [for lack of a more descriptive expression]. The beginning was fine until the main character started to dream while in a coma. When you see scenes from 19th century British India, you felt here that the director was following the path that was taken for "Titanic"; i.e., go back in time and tell a story. Deciding to go back and forth between the past and the present has to be an exact split-second action. That is where the director bamboozled the whole project. Here, the scenes between the past and the present were so crowded that it became extremely irritating. I still kept watching, hoping that the super multi-switching would cease; however, it continued on and on and on all the way to the end. The question here is WHY, OH WHY? Eg: The handmaid is twisting the rings while looking at them and, all of a sudden, the current girlfriend is underwater looking at some thing which the audience cannot identify. The captain finds the ring in the pond, Bang, switch to current girl friend looking at him in a coma!?? The captain is walking in the forest then, Bang! he is underwater floating to the surface. These are just a couple out of many, many more.

The starting scenes were exciting. I like adventures re-the British in India. The scenery was beautiful. The actors were credible. Too bad the whole thing was just a case of cut-and-paste bunch of scenes not connected to each other.

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I agree with you!

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You mean 18th century India. ;)

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Scorpiascorpio, yep, you are right: 18th century. I don't know how that one slipped by. Thnx

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