An average movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this movie but, for some reasons, I was intrigued by it and I was quite eager to check it out. Well, to be honest, it turned out to be rather disappointing and the damned thing never really grabbed me after all. I mean, it’s not that it wasn’t well made and I wouldn’t blame the actors either. Indeed, Jude Law and Carrie Coon were some perfect choices for their respective characters and they both delivered some really solid performances. Basically, the issue was that the whole point of this movie was too obscure for most of the duration and it took too damned long just to get there. Seriously, it has been a while since I have seen such a slow burn and, to make things worse, nothing that happened in the meantime was really fascinating. Basically, the whole point (I guess, I’m still not sure at this point) was to show that, in spite of its talent, charm, good looks, wealth, Rory O’Hara is actually a seriously rotten guy. Indeed, in his life, pretty much everything is going to sh*t: his previous job, his new job, his finances, his cranky new mansion, his new horse, his kids, his relationship with his wife, with his mother,… Seriously, they made it really hard to root for the guy but, above all, they pushed it just too far. I mean, he was at first introduced as the genius golden boy of the finance world and, yet, you never see him ever doing anything remarkable in this area so he only seemed to be an incompetent arrogant idiot. In a similar fashion, he didn’t become overnight a lying blowhard, he must have been this same way pretty much all his life so why would his wife act so shocked and annoyed by his behavior? Anyway, to conclude, even if the damned thing never really worked, it was still a decent watch though and I guess it is worth a look.

6/10