Recommended
The problem with Darling, however, is that despite the jokes coming thick and fast, the story seems tedious. It’s a mark of how little happens, and how predictable the story is, that even the 2-hour 9-minute duration seems long. You are forced to sit through each character discovering the presence of the ghost, and while the scenes, for the major part, are admittedly funny, you can’t wait to move on. On some level, you also know that a back story of the ghost is waiting. And even as you break into occasional laughter, you are twiddling your thumbs in impatience, waiting for it. There’s also a lengthy fight sequence at the end and an unsurprising final scene whose purpose you aren’t entirely sure of.