Not exact matches
And Rupert Gregson - Williams expands upon the heroine's quickly recognizable guitar theme introduced by Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL in her previous appearance
without letting it
become tiresome.
But it's far from just empty spectacle either; the director, and his script (by David Magee) engages intelligently and wholeheartedly with the novel's themes of religion, fate and storytelling,
without becoming overbearing or
tiresome — in fact, it's arguably more successful than the novel in that respect.
That it stuck to its guns as an offbeat arthouse fantasy message film
without becoming cartoonishly absurd was the thing I most admired about it even though, at the same time, that was what made it so
tiresome and disingenuous and left me feeling this was more about Hollywood's bogus take on reality than an actual depiction of real - life.