Although a short film there isn't a huge amount of story in it, quite a lot of time is wasted by the actors standing around seemingly doing very little. Everyone is rather anonymous too with the film largely in long shots (apart from the iconic close-up of Justus Barnes at the end) though for such an early film it is very well made. Many of the techniques used in this film such as location shooting and cross cutting, which are taken for granted nowadays, were truly innovative for 1903.
