Light but heavy

Rating: 9/10 (12 April 2018)

The central performance is really something. If you watch this you can see that Gary was a shoe-in for the Oscar. And that is not to put anyone else or rather their performances down. This is about a fantastic performance from a guy who always delivers and whose time it was to win the Golden Boy (aka Oscar).
But Academy Awards aside and maybe some of the jokes too, this is very talk heavy. And I could hear some people sigh the longer it went on. So while I didn't feel this was or rather is too long, I can understand if some people may not have the patience to really watch something like this for so long. If you are aware of that and critisize the movie for this, you are doing the movie a disservice and other potential viewers might not feel that way.
So while you can argue about the place in film history in general, you can't argue about the performances in this. The speeches could have gone wrong or backfired, but they didn't ... they actually made this really good. It's almost a shame quite a lot of it, is shown in the trailer