YMMV / Three Thousand Years of Longing

• Awesome Music: The trailer features 2020s by Suuns, used to set the psychedelic feel of the story.
• Ending Fatigue: The film kind of meanders after the djinn tells his last story. There are several different spots where one might expect the film to end, only for the story to keep trucking on just when you expect the credits to hit. In particular, the third act in London introduces several brand new conflicts to the story (the bigoted neighbors, the djinn's struggle to physically exist in the modern world, and the two protagonists navigating their attempted romance) and can seem disconnected from the rest of the movie.
• Hollywood Homely: The Djinn states that Zefir was "no great beauty," but she's quite conventionally attractive. Given the Djinn's familiarity with Sheba (described as "beauty itself") and a range of harem concubines, his standards might be abnormally high. Not that this prevented him from falling in love with her.
• Slow-Paced Beginning: The title is rather apt, as it feels like three thousand years have passed by the time the plot actually gets going. Most of the time when people criticize the movie, they mention the very slow beginning and the continued slow pacing for the Djinn relating his stories to Alithea. Oddly enough, though, the ending feels a bit rushed and that could be a side effect of the first and second acts having rather slow pacing.
• Strangled by the Red String: Alithea's declaration of love for the Djinn comes rather suddenly after the end of his final tale, though it's foreshadowed by her gulping in the same way that Sheba did upon hearing Solomon's song. Despite the fact that they've only known each other for a few hours at most and that she's been wary of him and what he offers for most of that time, she confesses that she loves him and uses her first wish that he might love her too.

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