In a lengthy duration of nearly 2.5 hours, there are scenes proved to be sluggish, slow in motions, non-dramatic and lack of neccessary twists. Meanwhile, the perfection and elaboration in the main cast's costumes, backgrounds, characters, storylines and acting ... should have made the film, on a whole, something worth a watching.
Another strong point of the film is, of course, the presence of talented Timothee Chalamet and Robert Pattinson, and it is their acting that forge the soul of this hypothetical (or possibly historical) movie.