There are so many extraneous and disruptive non-essential scenes, the important story of the history of The Liberator, Simon Bolivar, and those of us who would like to know that story, are badly short-changed.
Yes, it is a very big-budget film, with apparently thousands of extras amid the mountainous grandeur of South America, but so much is shown almost as a collage or montage, it never holds together as a narrative.
Good actors are wasted when a director is as apparently narcissistic as this one seems to be. Tell The Story! But, no, he wants to impress us with his directing. And fails.
Too much camera work is obviously shakily hand-held and wobbly, and probably "The Liberator" or "Libertador" could have been saved by better editing, but my guess is the director bossed that.
Other than the acting and the score by Dudamel, oh, and the scenery, and I suppose the scope, for viewers who might care about that, there is not a lot to recommend here.
Yes, it is a very big-budget film, with apparently thousands of extras amid the mountainous grandeur of South America, but so much is shown almost as a collage or montage, it never holds together as a narrative.
Good actors are wasted when a director is as apparently narcissistic as this one seems to be. Tell The Story! But, no, he wants to impress us with his directing. And fails.
Too much camera work is obviously shakily hand-held and wobbly, and probably "The Liberator" or "Libertador" could have been saved by better editing, but my guess is the director bossed that.
Other than the acting and the score by Dudamel, oh, and the scenery, and I suppose the scope, for viewers who might care about that, there is not a lot to recommend here.