HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

susan-317 I LOVE costume dramas. And this movie had the makings of a great costume drama. It was wonderfully cast, beautifully designed and perfectly costumed. It looked great.What a cast! Ms. Vikander as the lead; Christoph Waltz as the widow who buys Alicia Vikander out of poverty; DeHaan as an artist who is NOT pretending to be Keanu Reeves as he did in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets; the beautiful and talented Holliday Grainger who I loved in The Borges as Lucrezia (WOW!). Tom Hollander plays a doctor for laughs. And Kevin McKidd is in the movie for two minutes. What the heck? Zack Galifianakis as an alcoholic idiot. Again - what the heck is he even doing in this film?Joanna Scanlan apparently is contracted to play in every Dutch painter movie.And Judi Dench plays an Abbess who grows tulips.There were so many great characters, but the movie focuses on the wrong ones. Even the tulips are a character and we don't see enough of them. I didn't mind the I Love Lucy wacky bits, either, though they didn't quite fit.The film went horribly wrong somewhere. I lost interest in the main plot line, as did the characters. Even I was more interested in the characters that leave for the West Indies. What happened to all of them? Especially the man who leaves and comes back. "Where were you?" "Africa."I don't know if it was the editing or the script, but something needed a bit of extra work. If that had been accomplished, this would have been a marvelous film!

warrenfingers I enjoyed the work overall and understood what I saw to be a brand of expensive fiction. Dang, there's lots of waist to throw away, this isn't that. I find it notable that 1) The novelist was part of the writing team (#backstory?) 2) the plot often relied on easy vagaries to create itself as well as 5-cent resolutions 3) There were some hackneyed text/dialogue choices. Still, overall here was a lot of good cinema put to use-on this ol' much-done song of love and egregious expectation.

igeorge1982 Although the story may be a good source for great entertainment, the movie just does not glue together. The generally good performance of the actors are simply wasted on the table of the directing and editing. The storytelling missis any course, we can rather see stages chained together. The photography also missis the ability to add something to the whole, but we can see some nice shots.

rai-15799 Alicia Vikander did good no a little very good. A little bit direction issues, fantastic Script nice cinematography. But all in all at the it was good enjoyable ride.