Empty, sort of

Rating: 5/10 (12 November 2012)

This movie is just so slow and empty. Good God! It's always (ALWAYS) a bad sign, when I couldn't care less about what happens to the characters. The good guys, the bad guys; any of them could have been killed after an hour and I wouldn't even have blinked. That's because even your average straight-to-DVD-Steven-Seagal movie has more character development than this "masterpiece". The movie does nothing to make you care about its characters. There's just NO storytelling at all. Am I supposed to feel for the guy (Gosling)? Hope he makes it at the end? How could I, when all he does is posing in his scorpion jacket (with his toothpick), speaking even less than Rambo and sometimes brutally killing a bad guy? Please. Give me something to work with here... Who is he? What does he want? What is his motivation? What went through his head, when he turned some guy's head to mush right in front of "his" girl? And her: Why would she be interested in a guy who hardly says a word to her? Shouldn't she assume that he's bad news? The apartment scene was so socially awkward. Is she that desperate? Or stupid? Or both? We don't know. Well, she's cute. By now you can probably tell that I didn't like the movie. Go see it, and judge yourself. Maybe you'll disagree with me.