The film is glorious to look at, but at times too glorious to look at. The film makers went to great lengths in their search for appropriate locations - they even filmed in the street I used to live in at the time of the filming (Northumberland Street in Edinburgh), and I could observe how much effort they had to go through to make the street look authentical. Having spend all this effort the scenes had to end up in the final product, but they are not really contributing anything to the film. I would describe them as gratuitous location shots.
