Time of The Wolf

One of the most boring and dreary films I have ever seen. Interminable interludes of nothing and aimless wandering about followed the initial murder. From the start I was clueless as to what on earth was happening, there were few clues as to the 'disaster' that had made the family leave their home; I thought they were on holiday. The so-called 'suspense' became the only theme of the film: endless unresolved waiting, for something that never happened. Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot is more exciting than this DROSS!!! The actors were wooden, the action nonexistent apart from a series of petty squabbles over food and water. The plot consists of: family scrabbling about trying to find food along with several other families, with a few scuffles, all waiting for a train that never came, which was obvious because if there had been a disaster of some kind then duh, why would the trains be running?

The ending was incomprehensible; it left me wondering if they simply ran out of film. Nothing was resolved; the young boy tries to kill himself but was stopped and comforted, cut to a shot from a train window for about 5 minutes, end of film. Er, am I even bothered if anything was supposed to happen next? Were any of them on the train? Or what? I was unable to care about any of the characters enough to wonder. Emotionally riveting you say? Er, no. It was emotionally numbing and a total waste of a couple of hours. Don't even bother considering it.