Interesting piece, until you get half way and realise, what you're being served isn't the quality product you were promised in the menu. Instead it's a disappointment. A dish served half cold, where the combined ingredients fail to come together and three bites in, leaves a bad taste in your mouth that lingers until the very last morsel.

You can't entirely blame imdb, upon whose raving reviews you built your expectations. It's 2023 and by now you should be used to false ratings, extolling the outstanding virtues of the latest Hollywood blockbuster, paying parties in 3rd world countries to leave glowing reviews.

It's not a dead duck, it has its moments but sadly it doesn't fly. Like the great majority of Hollywood movies over the last few years, it should have been sent back to the kitchen for reworking, or better still removed from the menu at the planning stage before it ever reached the table.

Either decent scriptwriting is being ignored, or there's a shortage of basic talent. Whatever it is, the outcome remains the same. Nothing is being produced today that could ever honestly be classed as a 'Triumph of Hollywood Cinema', instead we're expected to swallow the bland and mediocre, rather than the sublime entertainment we're promised.