A good movie

I was quite blown away by 'Mar adentro' which was basically the best Spanish movie I have ever seen so I was really eager to watch Alejandro Amenabar’s following directing effort. I was rather amazed that this movie was barely seen and quickly forgotten. Indeed, it might not have been Amenabar's best movie so far but I thought it was still pretty good. Basically, it was dealing with philosophy, science, religion and love and most of it was actually quite spellbinding. The main issue was that it was probably too ambitious and all those ideas were not really well developed after all. For example, there were not one but two romances around Hypatia but I understand why they added those. Indeed, it was to add some human dimension to these grand scale events but those romances were more annoying than anything else eventually. Furthermore, the movie was fairly anti-Christian since the Christians were portrayed as merciless bullies. Of course, they destroyed some invaluable books and artifacts in the past but so did the Muslims, the Jews, the Pagans or any other religion. Eventually, the message was really striking but the execution was rather heavy-handed. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, it was still an intelligent film, something rare nowadays, and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in Religion.