| Based on Victor Hugo's depressing novel, this dreary film drags on and on
as Jean Valjean, played by Liam Neeson, suffers a series of challenges through
his life, challenges he could easily go around if only he hadn't become such
an honest man. It's also a character study of an inspector whose love for
the law has wiped out almost all trace of humanity from him; but this is
inconsistently portrayed. By the time we get to the damsel in distress,
I felt like I was watching a horror film, or a crime drama: "Stay right here",
and of course she doesn't, she has to go and get into trouble and fuck up
everybody's lives. A really overdone theme in films.
|