Slow and annoyingly sentimental

Rating: 2/10 (28 October 2017)

I'm a linguist so the only part of this movie that resonated with me is Amy Adams' characters vocation and the thrust on language/communication. The rest of the film is flat and formulaic. You never really get a sense of who the leads are, other than some random 'passion' and sense of duty that sort of defines and binds them. It's pretty cursory.
The backstory of the movie is, in my humble opinion pointless though it's threaded throughout the script. It adds a somewhat unnecessary burden to the Adams character and creates a layer in the storyline that is used to for snapshots that the writer or director could have otherwise used to better develop the main narrative.
I like all the actors but it just bored me with useless artifice.