This movie was bad to put it simply -- don't fall for all the hype. I have no idea how this movie is so loved; it is like two bad movies rolled into one with the viewer forced to alternate between each boring tale: one in the past, and one in the even further past. This of course causes the film to be overly long, poorly edited, tedious and dull.

To be fair, I'm not a big fan of this genre, but I did want to like it, but could not. Little to like here: no sympathetic characters, no comedy, no inspiration, no beauty, just a dark heart that goes nowhere. Sorry, but there's much better films to watch with your free time. Thus a rating of 3.0/10.0.