A disappointing movie

Even though this movie is really obscure, since there was a really nice cast, I was really eager to check it out. Eventually, even though the whole thing really had some potential, even though there was indeed a very good cast (Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, Kirsten Dunst, Holly Hunter) who delivered some decent performances, the whole thing didn’t really convince me.  Apparently, this movie was the directing debut of Ed Solomon (it would be also the last one he made), a writer behind some decent movies like ‘Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure’,  ‘Men in Black’ or ‘Now You See Me’ but also some rather misguided project like ‘Charlie's Angels’ or even awful like ‘Super Mario Bros.’. Anyway, coming back to our main feature, basically, even though the story was not bad and the characters involved were actually rather interesting, the whole thing just tried way too hard to be thoughtful. Indeed, at the end of the day, I thought it was actually rather pretentious and even slightly underwhelming. It is one thing to have some messed up characters but I’m afraid it is not enough to make a really compelling movie. To conclude, in spite of its flaws, it was still a decent watch, thanks to the fine actors involved,  and I think it is worth a look.