An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really expecting much from this flick but since I have a weak spot for John Dhal’s work, I thought I might as well check it out. Indeed, back in the 90's, John Dahl was a very interesting director, specialised in the film noir (I especially loved ‘Kill me again’ and ‘Red Rock West’) and, even though he had a decent career, this would be his last full length feature (since then he has been only working on various TV-shows). Eventually, this flick was something really different than his usual work but it was still far from being great, I’m afraid. Indeed, this time, he went for a black satirical comedy but the end-result was rather mixed. I mean, Ben Kingsley was, as usual, very good and Bill Pullman did a  fine  joob as well, Téa Leoni was decent but nothing great and Luke Wilson did his usual laid-back guy. So, there was nothing really to complain about the actors and the directing was competent enough. No, the main issue was with the story which was just too weak and honestly, not really believable. To conclude, it was a decent watch but John Dahl has done much better in the past.