I think that many people expected too much from this movie. Before I went to see it, many people told me about how poor it was and how disappointing they got after seeing it.
Well, to start, I think that people simply expected too much from this movie. We cannot expect to produce in Portugal, (a country where the cinema is mostly made to please directors artistic taste instead of the general public) a movie with the quality of the ones produced in countries like Spain, England or France.
1st, because we simply don't have the budget and 2nd, because of the reason I said above. This really was one of the very few movies I saw that was made for the public instead of the directors! It seams that the Portuguese cinema needed to have one movie with only less than 500 viewers to understand that, if we want the cinema to grow in Portugal, they have to make movies for the public and not for the directors. We simply don't have market for only the called "movies of author".
In this perspective, I think that this movie was a very good one and it's a very first step in order do start making more movies for the people! That's what I'm looking forward to see.
About the quality of the movie itself. I don't think it was bad. In fact, I founded it rather good. Of course it wasn't brilliant, but still, it was "just good". But, for now, I guess I can be happy watching a "just good" Portuguese movie in the cinemas instead of not watching any Portuguese movie at all! For that, I'm very happy with this movie!