Great story, very average movie

Rating: 3/10 (26 February 2019)

I struggle with 'based on a true story' movies generally. The plot embellishments and/or complete inventions tend to discredit them for me to a lesser or greater degree.
This movie plods along, OK performances, pedestrian story-telling, badly paced.
I think the assumption was probably that the bizarre nature of the central plot would be enough to carry the film and wow us, the audience. It goes without saying that the message is vitally important. But the film doesn't do the subject matter justice, and just doesn't work very well. Not wowed at all.