Why are the movies taking  so long to download

hi there iv had a movie downloading on to my ipad and its been 3 days im new to his as this is the first movie iv downloaded

Movies tend to be quite large files.  around 1.2GB to 1.5GB for SD versions. Twce that if they are HD.
Depending on your Internet connection they can take a while to download.
How fast is your Internet?

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