An average movie

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but since there was a decent cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even though it was based on a very interesting true story, to be honest, the end-result left like a low-rent version of ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’. Concerning Emily Blunt, I always had a weak spot for this actress, she was in fact the main reason why I wanted to watch this movie in the first place and she was pretty good in here. It’s too bad I didn’t care much for the trajectory her character followed. On the other hand, even though Chris Evans is usually quite charismatic, I thought he was actually rather weak here and he never really convinced me playing a foul-mouthed sales representative. However, the biggest issue was probably that the damned thing was directed by David Yates. Indeed, even though he has probably been one of the most successful directors in terms of box-office results thanks to the Harry Potter franchise, he is not really what you could call an ‘author’ and he is certainly not Martin Scorsese. I mean, it’s not that it was awful, like pretty much every other movies delivered by Yates, it was competently made but not much more than that. Seriously, you might have more fun with reading a Wikipedia page retelling these events. Sure, I’m not saying that they necessarily had to go for the same wacky tone displayed in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ but they clearly flirted with a similar approach. However, they never really committed themselves to this tone so maybe they should have gone something else. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, it was still a decent watch but, to be honest, with such a strong tale, it should have been so much better though.