Going with the comment of another poster here, the structure was terrible. It almost seems like the movie is trying TOO hard to drape us in a cloak of enigma about a story that gets almost everything wrong anyways. I hate to judge it for the political connotations and I try VERY hard to remove my bias, but I almost through a brick (don't ask why I have a brick in my bedroom) at my television set when I saw Das Kapital. Though I suppose the director is not an economist and we mustn't blame him for it, get over the Marxism thing guys. It's been nearly two centuries since the marginal revolution, Marxist economics is deader than this film's weak attempts to evoke pity in the audience through Angelina Jolie, who was also terrible in the early scenes of the movie. They could have elaborated on her a bit more and really made us feel for her character and her people, but everything was just so covered in the perceived ignorance and almost childlike confusion of Redgrave. I'm sorry, it just didn't work for me. It was trivial, needy, and poorly put together. Like a half-baked brownie with raw eggs and spoiled milk.
Review of The Fever
