A Flash In The Pan

Rating: 6/10 (22 January 2016)

No.
No way!
Hell No!
Is it Hollywood dogmas with its Star System Thing
or
Is it just a non-inspired part of the Director and the Editor's Lives?
This movie, when you know all the movies that have been made about the mob, and include many Gems that transcend decades of movie-making and are still on the top of movies of all times, this movie just does not get in the competition with them.
Many very good actors :
-Joel Edgerton,
-Peter Sarsgaard,

Rory Cochrane

just give awesome sensitive performances.
And indeed (as I've read in a review) the real star in this movie is Joel Edgerton. More precisely, his character is more interesting than the movie star's character.
I don't have much to say about that one. I have been bothered through ALL the movie by the prosthetics used on him. Couldn't he have shaved his head instead? You know, Christian Bale transformed his hair in American Hustle in a very credible way. Here it was not. And don't get me started on the eyes! No, No way, Hell no!
Oh and all the movie! The editing! Really I don't like to say so many negative things. But the scenes were often too long and not significant enough. It was always like a sauce that never thickens. Odd. At some point, there is this view from the sky, and it's halfway of the movie, and I got me thinking : I could as well stop now!
They should not have put a big star on the movie poster and all these little faces below him. Because these little faces are what saves this movie. I would say : watch it, make your own opinion, and don't miss the not-big-stars performances.