Disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (19 January 2014)

What a letdown. The movie is disjointed, waaay too long, doesn't make a lot of sense, and the ending lets all the remaining air out of the movie. There are a few, very short glimmers of humor, but only a few. And I was waiting for Amy Adams to DO something other than look gorgeous, but she was really given next to nothing to do. Jennifer Lawrence did a mostly convincing turn as a ditzy blonde, but is that hard? And that actor from The Hangover never gives us a even slight convincing hint that he could ever be a FBI agent. Louis CK acts like himself, which is not anything like a FBI supervisor. The most convincing character is the Camden mayor, and he gets the shaft in the end. The lawyer's office scene is just not in any way credible. You know a movie is poorly thought out if it requires a lot, and I mean a LOT of voice-over exposition to paper over the weak ares. What a mess. A nice try but it probably should have gone straight to DVD,