17 January 2010

A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, 2009)

7.5/10
I have to say, after all the monstrous hype and acclaim this movie is receiving, I was let down. I kept waiting for "that moment" where everything would coalesce and hit me and it didn't come. The movie's strongest points are the performances by its two main characters played by Tahar Rahim and Niels Arestrup, they really are the film. The first hour is incredibly engrossing but by the second half (of a 2h35m movie) things were dragging for me and at the end I was left impressed with the story but underwhelmed on the whole.

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