hyped garbage

A Brilliant Conflict

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Men in sailor suits with pom-poms on their hats row a boat in a medium-tight shot. According to the title, this is a whaling boat and it looks like some sort of exercise or sport the way they are dressed in this late Lumiere-produced movie.For a Lumiere it is a below par. The camera is in the boat and it is in tight focus. There is little or no motion other than the back-and-forth sculling of the crew, far from the fascinating complications of movement that the Lumieres' cameras had recorded in the previous decade. While it is interesting as a look at the way members of a profession used to dress formally, it's not very good as a movie.