“Waiting For The Barbarians” (*1/2 out of four) was a ponderous adaptation of J.M. Coetzee’s novel about the magistrate (Mark Rylance) working in a distant outpost who begins to question his loyalty to the empire of the war he’s fighting in as new soldiers (Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, and others) arrive at the post for battle. Director Ciro Guerra makes his noted English-language debut here but film is impossibly dull and has no real story to tell. And what time period are we supposed to be in here? A particularly egregious waste of both Depp and Pattinson who are given nothing to do; a real long slog.