Boring and pointless

Rating: 2/10 (23 March 2014)

I did not expect to be as bored and impatient as I was while watching this movie, but it lacks just about everything that makes a movie interesting to me. Full of insipid dialog and meandering movement, the movie just drags. Bad people doing bad things is really dull unless the director can give us a reason to watch. Amy Adams can act, for sure, but making her parade around in silly dresses displaying her boobs all the time seemed so pointless. Maybe the performances of the actors was supposed to make up for the lack of a compelling script? They didn't. I found myself asking repeatedly, "Who's zoomin' who?" and trying hard to follow the deceptions but ultimately asking myself, "Who cares?" It is also baffling to try to understand why the director chose to set the film in the time period he did. Often, this decision seems to leave the tone-setting to whatever old tunes happen to be chosen, making them more interesting than the conversations they are supposed to inform.