As some of our reviewers have already said, this movie should not have been made in the first place. Making a sequel, prequel or midquel is always a great challenge, especially when the original movie is as epic as in this case. Midquels are particularly challenging, because both the beginning and the end of the story are supposed to be given. It is not that this particular midquel is bad. Well, it is bad, to be sure. But there is more to it. The movie is simply pointless; it adds pretty much nothing to the original story. It doesn't enrich it in any perceivable way. Well, perhaps I had been expecting much. But what is the point of making an insertion to the story without saying anything new? OK, so they met each other in the 40s. So what? Does this add anything to the emotional substance of their relationship?
Another trait that hasn't been pointed out in other comments is that the movie is too americanized: only one storyline, extremely straightforward, with quite a predictable "Happy" end. But perhaps the most ridiculous of all scenes was that of the fist-fight, in which a young Aussie farmer gets bitten by an ageing priest. Come on, guys! This is not even funny.
Diagnosis: don't waste your time.
Another trait that hasn't been pointed out in other comments is that the movie is too americanized: only one storyline, extremely straightforward, with quite a predictable "Happy" end. But perhaps the most ridiculous of all scenes was that of the fist-fight, in which a young Aussie farmer gets bitten by an ageing priest. Come on, guys! This is not even funny.
Diagnosis: don't waste your time.