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Memorable, crazy movie

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

The critics who fall all over each other for crap like Marvel comic book movies, Transformers and the like, panned this movie. Well, they blew it. This movie has the typical Herzog exceptional cinematography set to absolutely beautiful music. Very few directors in the history of cinema have Herzog's ear for just the right music. We're not talking about putting the records you collected as a teenager in your movies like so many other directors do who cater to imbeciles. This story is intelligent, feels like a documentary. It's beautiful. Of course, Herzog also touches on his man vs nature favorite theme. If you're a fan of Herzog, ignore the critics (they've become useless) and see this film. Trust Herzog, don't trust the critics ever again. It's like listening to a poem.

I've watched this film several times the music is haunting and Nickole Kidman is excilent in her portraile of Gertrude Bell plus it's a historical piece the way she understood the people their way of life and how Politics can muddy up life

Film Review: "Queen of the Desert" (2015)Working with major Hollywood stars on a frequent basis since 2005 with directing Christian Bale through "Rescue Dawn" (2006), confronting Nicolas Cage with inner demons in "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" (2009) and given the antagonist "The Zec" for Tom Cruise's interpreted character of "Jack Reacher" (2012), Director Werner Herzog collaborates with actress Nicole Kidman to make her a living goddess by using the chronicles of real-life character Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) to find poetic beginnings and a roundup ending for a passionate picture of a woman connecting to her inner state within nature. The director loses all the ongoing hooks and suspense twists in between, especially due to a miscast actor James Franco as Gertrude Bell's love-interest Henry Cadogan, leaving Nicole Kidman struggling through an early 2014 shooting period, which she, due to her professionalism and decades of filmmaking experience, resolved for herself by wrap time, leaving the much-more documentary solid director Werner Herzog with another unbalanced motion picture narration of missed opportunities.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Poor choice of actors as portrayals were not convincing (mostly just eye candy appeal), and acting seemed to be mostly rote memorization and regurgitate. Writers tried to rescue with emphasis on romantic scenes which were also not convincing. Adding a Lawrence character was almost a charade. No sense of the hard work that Kidman's character, Bell, must have put in/endured. Lots of desert scenes which seemed more Hollywood cute than a sweaty gritty actual depiction