Review of Mr. Turner (2014) by Ted V — 22 Jun 2015

Well that was a truly frustrating experience.

I had not much information about Mr. Turner apart from the fact that he is a famous painter. Felt it would be an interesting biopic about his painting and personal life. What I experienced was a two and half hour of complete frustration and boredom. Moreover Mr. Turner was an extremely annoying and unpleasant character. We simply see him visit some random places meeting lot of characters, none of which I felt like caring about. It all felt aimless and pointless. The conversations were overly sophisticated and many times it was hard for me to decipher what they were speaking even with the subtitles on. There are few scenes here and there (like the prism experiment and some other scenes where they talk about our mysteriously magnificent universe) which were quite great but they were scattered in the bloated run time. As Turner moves through various stages of his life there is barely any consistency and his Grunts become more and more annoying before an abruptly ridiculous ending. The only highlight in this humdrum was the fantastic cinematography capturing some breathtaking views of landscapes Turner painted. Also the production design was great so were the costumes. The academy award nominated score however was unpleasantly strange plus creepy at times. It was mostly the redundant theme track played all along. I maybe all wrong as there may be a different perspective of watching this film but as a casual viewer this completely sucked. I think the biggest problem was I wasn't able to connect the main character of Turner at any level at any point of the film and when such a thing happens you can barely expect to enjoy a biopic.

RATING: [1/5].