The Hollywood Reporters Todd McCarthy called the film's visuals vivid, stunning, and magnificent on a technical level, and praised the performances of Fassbender, Rapace, and Theron, but wrote that the film "caters too much to imagined audience expectations when a little more adventurous thought might have taken it to some excitingly unsuspected destinations".
"You can imagine Great Expectations with Helena Bonham Carter very vividly because she is incredibly good at playing those distinctive, idiosyncratic parts and Miss Havisham is nothing if not idiosyncratic.
This doesn't happen too often to Mrs Clinton, I imagine, so expectations were soaring.After all, apart from the two particular women concerned, this was also the first visit by such a senior American official for 50 years (the last being John Foster Dulles), and the most high-profile visitor to Ms Suu Kyi in Myanmar since anyone could remember.
So imagine my expectations when I set out to see BYD's "Village of the Future".
It's hard to imagine how expectations for Friday's event could have been higher.
Sebastian is, of course, a queer, black character, which is something we haven't seen go mainstream before and this show imagines the expectations thrust upon him by the media given that this role is unpaved for public consumption.
What's more, you may remember Eric Schmidt saying in a keynote back in February, that mobile growth is happening quicker than anyone imagined, outpacing even the expectations of those optimistic parties at Google and beyond.
As we discuss below, public expectations and imagined futures play a potent role in the progress a given area of science or emerging sector may or may not make.
This notion of 'technology as conflict' shapes expectations and imagined futures and prompts important actors to act accordingly: to emphasise potentially conflicting issues or to seek ways how to avoid, in a pro-active way, conflict to materialise.
"In our wildest expectations, we never imagined being in this situation," A. said.
