Review of The Light Between Oceans (2016) by Skeptic303 — 17 Oct 2016

The Light Between Oceans, based off of a book, is an unfortunately mixed bag of a movie. On one hand, the acting is very good and when the movie finally gets to its narrative (50 minutes in), it starts to thrive. In addition, I wouldn't hesitate to nominate this movie for best cinematography because the shots are so gorgeous that I don't even know where to begin praising it. Maybe I should start with the locations.

However, so much of this movie's substance fails. As previously mentioned, it actually takes 50 minutes before the movie's plot starts kicking in. Everything before then is setup, which only needed to be 10 minutes long. At first, it starts to thrive, but by the end of this 135 minute movie, the movie never seemed to have traveled far. It isn't very deep or thought-provoking, especially because one of the characters needed much more development. Its subject matter needed a better representation, and this movie can only muster up a seal of mediocrity.