If you had just told me that this was a Martin Scorsese film, I don't think I'd have believed you. I think I hated just about everything in this. The primary issue, is that you really need to have done your Tibet history homework before turning this on.

I went into it hoping to get a deeper understanding of the Dali Lama backstory and culture. What I got instead was constant confusion about what the hell was going on. Who are all these people? What is their relationship? Why are they acting this way? I don't know.

Outside of the plot, the tech side of this sucks too. Nothing about the cinematography stands out as interesting. In fact, there is one shot through a telescope that looks terrible to me. I guess that is technically interesting. Then the score bores the hell out of me. It gets sooooo redundant.

Good thing this was over 2 hours of great entertainment.