Review of Gandhi

Gandhi is dull

It's boring. That's the problem with Gandhi. I understand what it's trying to do. It's humanising a mythical figure of sorts. But the director simply goes too far with this humanising. He makes us watch Gandhi's everyday life as he washes, speaks with people and so on. I would have no problem with this, but it seems to take away from everything else the film has to offer. We never see some of Gandhi's reasoning to some actions he chooses to do in the film, but instead we see him talk jibbajabba to random peeps for fifteen minutes? Ben Kingsley is fantastic as Gandhi, but the script and the film overall just seem far too dry for such a performance. Even the few "epic" moments the movie has to offer end up falling flat due to poor cinematography or just plain dull scoring. If there truly is an issue with this movie, it's the fact that it's a drag to watch. I want to be able to enjoy watching movies, if not by being entertained or made think, then atleast to learn something. Gandhi delivers it's message through too many boring scenes of everday activity and hence in the end feels like a yawnfest despite all the scenes where something does happen being very good.

6/10

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Added by VierasTalo 2 months ago on 19 October 2009 07:45