Good performances but very dull overall

Rating: 5/10 (19 November 2015)

The real story should have provided a great script yet it's at times terribly violent but overall simply dull. I'm giving it 5 stars solely for the great performances by Jesse Plemons (who looks nothing like FNL's Landry and it took me a while to realise where I've seen that face before!) and Johnny Depp, whose artificial blue lenses are so obviously fake it's a testament to his enormous talent that I found his character at all convincing. Just you know, maybe blind, since his eyes are made of glass. The brutality is sparse but gut-wrenching and yet it fails to add anything to the plot or characters. There is nothing redeeming about any of the villains, and the good guys are even duller than the bad ones (Kevin Bacon has very little charisma as the cliché shouting boss, and Adam Scott doesn't even get to utter a line for the most part of the film, just sits pointlessly in the background) Overall it feels like a massive waste of actors' talent, potentially great plot and viewers' time and money. Avoid!