Tedium

Rating: 2/10 (4 April 2015)

Spoiler alert:
How FOXCATCHER ever made it into the theaters much less receiving nominations for Oscars challenges credibility.
Based on a true story (our current fascination with the downfallen may be the reason this won attention) FOXCATCHER relates the story of how the greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances. Since this is history there can be no spoilers – the real story made every newspaper in the world. Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum who sleepwalks through this role) is guided by his brother David Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) in wrestling training and medal winning until the wealthiest man in the world John du Pont (Steve Carell in a totally monochromatic somnambulistic portrayal noted only because of is cosmetically added large nose) enters and ruins it all, ending up destroying the brothers relationship and killing David only to die in prison.
Sound like something you would want to watch? Probably not. It is long and oh so very boring. Grady Harp, April 15