The Sweet Hereafter

Late 1990's, heavily garlanded Atom Egoyan picture. Not good at all.
We had high hopes at the start, with some nice realist photography and some Ian Holm magic (apart from a dodgy accent he remains excellent). Added to this, we have a swooping technique that does seem to build up tension.
The film though quickly reverts to its standard type, a classy T.V. movie-of-the-week with a slightly disointed narrative. The camerawork is to be honest boring, Egoyan's shooting technique (save one move to the sky) soon becomes rather pointless and meaningless. The performances are generally neither bad nor good, just a little dull. We suppose the script is decent, but few fireworks.
Thematically the film is relatively interesting, the children punishing the adults, but this remains at once unclear and, when it does intrude, a little smack over the head subtlety.
This film really dissapointed.