Alright

Rating: 8/10 (16 November 2015)

In this movie Russell let the actors improvise. Christian Bale, who plays Irving Rosenfield, said that he was worried that they will lose the plot at the script, but Russell told him that he is not so interested in that as much as the expressiveness and development of the characters. Unfortunately, Bales anxieties came true, and throughout the film there's a bunch of unnecessary sentences and sequences that do not have too much to do with the main course of action, so that the viewer inevitably at times loses attention. The film itself does not carry any special message, or forces us to any thinking. It's a bunch of over-expressed characters in one place with witch the observer cannot identify himself with. The great things are the costume and set designs that are carefully presented and authentically reflect the atmosphere of the time they talk about.