The White Tiger

I thought I was going to like The White Tiger a lot, but oh boy is it boring. Director Ramin Bahrani's pace is consistently off, and although he spends a ton of time explaining why the character does what he does, he never quite lets us in. In fact, he has an odd contempt – as is quite clear in the narrative frame – for a character we're supposed to love and with whom we're supposed to empathize. We wait and wait and wait for the protagonist to do something. When he finally does – after I am not kidding you 100 full minutes – it is too little, too slowly filmed, and too late.