An average movie

I wasn't really sure what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst, I was quite eager to check it out. Eventually, to be honest, I can't believe how underwhelming the whole thing was. I mean, the story actually really had some potential (it was based on the really weird life of Robert Durst, a real estate tycoon, who was allegedly involved in several murder cases) but I thought it was just really poorly developed. Basically, they tried to hammer the fact that the guy was mentally deranged maybe because his mother killed herself or because his father was a major douchebag but it was never really convincing and, on top of that, it took like forever to get there. Indeed, at least, for one hour, they go to Vermont, they get married, then they go back to New Yor but, all this time, nothing major really happen, except for some of the supporting actors saying that the guy is a real nutjob but, in fact, you get very few evidence of this. I thought it was all rather frustrating and, at the end of the day, both chararacters really annoyed me. How come she did not notice all these years that her husband was mentally disturbed? Why did he go back to New York if he really hated it? How come she spent almost a decade with him without having one single conversation about his feelings and/or mental state? But it didn't stop here. At some point, they moved forward to the 2000's and then the whole thing became just really weird. Basically, some DA opened up the case again (something supposedly major but completely dropped later on) and the main character went really apesh*t, hiding himself, dressing himself as a woman. The fact that they made Ryan Golsing looked like as if he was 90 years old instead of the 60 years required was the least of my concern with this part. Anyway, to conclude, I think they wanted to create some kind of hitchcockian mystery here and it was indeed a really interesting true story but the end-result was just a mess in my opinion and I don't think it is really worth a look after all.

5/10