Finally watched it.
After all the glowing reviews, I was not as impressed as I expected to be. It was very attractively filmed and most of the acting was OK, but it felt rather less than the sum of its parts. Some of the physical special effects e.g. after the cliff drops, were very average to the point of being intrusive, as in 'ooh, look at all that cast latex'. When the old man was lying on the ground, my thoughts turned to various scenes from Life of Brian. When they wheeled out the bingo machine, I almost burst out laughing. Also, the portrayal of a culture and its belief system felt a bit like a game of 'lets's see how many quirky and inexplicable bits we can cram in'.
Other parts were well done, but...
The biggest single problem was that I never felt the slightest identification/worry/concern for any of the characters. That's one reason I think the 1973 Wicker Man is far superior. He May Be Your Dog But He's Wearing My Collar
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