Clint Eastwood is a mediocre director.

Rating: 4/10 (6 June 2020)

I don't know why he's praised so much. His movies all look the same. Muddled. And the problem with this one is how overrated it is, through his and the actress he picked for the main part's success. Angelina Jolie. I never thought she was bad, but this movie proved me wrong. Here again, I can't understand the rage, and how she won awards for it. She was so bad it almost made me laugh. The storyline is in itself, not very captivating and a little disjointed at times. Especially during the commitment and trial parts, and yet I still managed to find the film too long. Or simply focusing on minor details, when it ends in a very rushed and abrupt way. Amateurish at best. Fortunately the rest of the cast was good, very good even (Malkovich comes to mind, obviously), and the depiction of 1920s not too stereotypical nor noir. Which I appreciated and prevented me from completely losing interest, when the investigation was struggling...