A good movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it was starring Julia Roberts, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, concerning Roberts, I was definitely one of her most interesting parts and I have to admit that she was not bad at all but, to be honest, I didn’t think that she was really convincing though. Still, I think she should be praised for tackling something so much more challenging than her usual work. Eventually, I had more issues with how the damned thing was written. Indeed, during the whole first half, the characters kept mentioning some past events that the audience didn’t witness so I felt I constantly had to catch up with them because of the lack of information which was rather frustrating. However, right when I was finally getting a better grip on the whole thing, they started this dog business which, in my opinion, completely derailed this tale. Seriously, how did it suppose to make sense that some major drug dealer would kidnap a dog to get back at a former employee?!? I mean, the best part was that he didn’t even leave any message or clues telling who was behind this snatching so you had to assume that the guy knew that Ben would roam all over the city until he find out he was behind all this. Even with this explanation, the whole thing was just way too far-fetched. Sure, I get the idea, the point was to get Ben’s mother sucked in his dark world for a little while but I still think it was seriously convoluted. Without mentioning the fact that drug lords usually don’t hire junkies to be their dealers because they are completely unreliable. However, there was one thing that completely worked and made the whole thing quite spellbinding to behold and it was Lucas Hedges’s pitch-perfect performance. I already noticed him before and, with each new part, he seemed to be more and more interesting but, here, he just simply blew me away. Indeed even if the story was sometimes rather shaky, he was always completely convincing, showing only through his eyes a variety of emotions going from sadness, despair, self-pity, self-disgust but also kindness, intelligence and street smart and so many other things. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, I still think it is worth a look, if only for Hedges’s fine performance.