well, 5 minutes in, you know what's going to happen. and then they just drag it out to the point of exhaustion over then next 2 hours and 36 minutes.

When i was analyzing the entire movie, there were 3 parts to the movie that could have been cut out that would have made NO difference to the ending or even character development.

1) The dying woman interludes - ihoss explained it perfectly
2) The russian woman escapades - could have been cut to 5 minutes and explained enough
3) The father coming back - really, it changed nothing and provided nothing new in the way of changing a point of view

i mean, i don't want to be all down on the movie. I honestly enjoyed it, but was just WAY too damned long.