Rather thin material stretched out to fill a whole movie.
Nice music, nice photography, but whether someone chooses to run on the Sabbath or not isn't enough material to make a film of this length.
Like many of the "blast from the past" movies from the 1980s and 1990s, such as A Room with a View (1985), A Passage to India (1984) or The Remains of the Day (1993), the movie is a boring story where most of the effort has gone into historical recreations to fool award-giving bodies like the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences into thinking it is a classy effort, rather than into entertaining or interesting viewers.
Apparently, at the time, winning awards like Oscars would ensured a certain amount of box office success, so I assume that making these boring period-piece movies to win awards was a deliberate strategy.
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