Ok so yes a lot of the reviews on here are right, I have no idea why this film was so highly rated by the academy. It was probably political, and some of the performances weren't that outstanding (JL Curtis in particular).

I feel that despite its efforts to be groundbreaking it's neither that new (other films have handled the whole multiple universe thing better) nor deep (the tedious interaction between Jobu and Evelyn was meant to make us think...but it was trite and shallow and overly obvious).

It's a film of two halves, which is done on purpose, and it starts off excitingly - there's a baddie and a goodie and one has to prevail. A good amount of people die at the hands of Jobu. She's cruel and unforgiving. Sets it up nicely. Unfortunately in the second half the whole thing unravels, it gets lost and slightly preachy and also the humour just doesn't work. The ending is saccharine, and left me feeling...meh. What about all the innocent dead people? It's as if they ran out of ideas and went for the easiest option which again is not very groundbreaking. Just the usual Hollywood fare but with some good fight scenes because of the actors involved.