Why have some critics said the movie drags and, said Kenneth Turan, is “unforgivably leisurely, almost glacial”?
Probably because Weinstein & Co. first marketed the movie as an action thriller, which they fortunately abandoned as the release date grew nearer and began emphasizing the humor of the film, of which there is quite a bit. (This is not a comedy, it’s just got a number of funny scenes.) The marketing may have left previewers unprepared for several long sequences where the action is basically all dialog and body language. In my view, this makes the movie all the better because the screenplay is incredibly well written. In fact, absent these dialogical sequences, the movie would be much less compelling. They are intense and very suspenseful. Q: Austrian actor Christoph Waltz has gotten overwhelmingly positive reviews as “Jew Hunter” S.S.
