Here’s another (negative) reaction of George Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” which screened last Tuesday at the AMC Lincoln Square in New York City. The early word is that this is a genie romance that will be highly polarizing. A $60 million dollar art film (SPOILERS):
“Went to a test-screening last week. This is going to be in post-production hell forever. It’s kind of a non movie. Goes absolutely nowhere for 80 minutes and then the last 20 comes out of nowhere. It wastes 75% of its running time with flashbacks. And Tilda [Swinton] is somehow bad in it. Tilda meets a genie and he grants her three wishes. She's in Istanbul to present a lecture on "narrativism" (literally talks in front of a projection of Marvel characters) and then buys a little bottle and when cleaning it...genie! She doesn't want to make a wish so he spends half the movie telling her about all the people he's previously granted wishes for and after all that she's like "I wish you would love me" and then they have sex and move back to London together.“
There is still no release date for “Three Thousand Years of Longing.”