February starts with a movie review…The New World (2005)

The visuals are great, but holy crap, what a mess this is. There’s a beautiful closing sequence, but the movie is s..o v…e…r…y s…..l…..o…..w you have to ask yourself is it worth aging 25 years in the time it takes to get there. Most emphatically not. So here it is:

Oh, by the way, this is supposed to be the story of Pocahontas, which should have made for a great movie because her short life was incredibly interesting. What a maddening, missed opportunity.