Because of the film's haphazard and confusing flashback structure, however, we already know that eight years later she is alive, and being kept in a locked basement by a creepy perv called Mika with a creepy perv's tache (Kevin Durand, unsurprisingly) who only ever seems to listen to one piece of music in his designer home: the Queen of the Night's aria from Mozart's «The Magic Flute.» (indiewire.com)
The first season's hidden - flashback structure didn't serve the story or characters at all; it only served to mess with the viewer. (relevantmagazine.com)
Not Stone, so he gives us only a few, filling the rest of the movie with exposition, delivered in a strange polyglot of accents, and framing it in an elaborate flashback structure as old Ptolemy (Anthony Hopkins) lectures scholars — and us — on why Alexander was great. (community.seattletimes.nwsource.com)