Pretty good

Rating: Null/10 (18 December 2013)

I have to start off by saying that I'm not a Gordon-Levitt fan at all. He was decent in 500 Days of Summer, but in everything else I've seen him in since then I've just been so bored and unmoved by him. With that out of he way... this is easily his best performance, from what I've seen. He nails the accent, the character completely, shedding any previous notion I had that he didn't have much range. He's just fantastic in this, and I wish he was in more talks for an Oscar nomination. The rest of the cast is also really great, hilarious. Johansson I've also had problems with in the past, although with her it's more mixed. Here, she's fantastic, probably the best acting I've seen her do (and yes, I've seen Lost in Translation... I will never get the love for her and the film). I give props to Levitt for coming up with a pretty bold subject to base his film across, and although it gets formulaic in terms of narrative and structure, it still works very well.