Material perhaps better suited to a documentary

Rating: 3/10 (30 October 2019)

There are some real-life stories that just cannot be made into interesting movies. This is one of them.
Labelled as a "character study", it focuses on Mark and Dave Schultz, two wrestlers, Olympic gold-medal winners and their "mentor", billionaire John Du Pont.
The problem is that the first half of the movie is dominated by Mark and John, two very dry, silent men, with assorted personality disorders. Watching these two moving in chilling, beautiful settings, hardly speaking to each other is not my idea of entertainment.
The other two main characters of the movie are John's disapproving mother and Dave, the only outgoing, warm personality.
In very sketchy psychological analysis, we should understand that John Du Pont had serious issues with mommy and became a weird, lonely recluse because of that. We should also understand that Mark had issues with big brother Dave (and probably with the whole world at large) and that is why his character is a sullen moron.
The soundtrack also takes itself very seriously, so you get the impression of watching a very long wake - and have the same fun.
I give one point each to the male leads, who definitely did a great job, but that's as far as it gets. Steve Carell prosthetic nose would be a minus point, but I won't be so stern.