Show and Tell is a baseline for any movie or tv, you guessed it, *show*. Show the history / behavior / incident / conflict / etc and use tell as an accent; exposition was necessary to literally set the stage in plays but on screen is a tell of a poor viewing decision.
At the almost exact midpoint of Savage Salvation, despite spending over 80% thus far with Jack Huston as our main POV character, DeNiro launches into exposition to tell (us) his deputy Savage's backstory as he was friends with DeNiro's son. This is followed by rehashing the killing used to open the movie with minor details yet no payoff or twist.
Rather than continue, a better use of my time was to go back and check how little we have of the other dealers up for revenge killing: less than 30 seconds. I have no idea how or why anyone watched another 40+ minutes.
At the almost exact midpoint of Savage Salvation, despite spending over 80% thus far with Jack Huston as our main POV character, DeNiro launches into exposition to tell (us) his deputy Savage's backstory as he was friends with DeNiro's son. This is followed by rehashing the killing used to open the movie with minor details yet no payoff or twist.
Rather than continue, a better use of my time was to go back and check how little we have of the other dealers up for revenge killing: less than 30 seconds. I have no idea how or why anyone watched another 40+ minutes.