Bland, boring, overrated, misrepresentation of the truth, you might fall asleep.

Rating: 3/10 (10 February 2015)

Bad movie, here's why (spoilers):
Reasons being are primarily because the acting was too limited to the real life characters. Channing was shy and quiet and seemed to be trying to be someone else rather than just act, Ruffalo had this pen writing all over his hands the whole time, and Carrell had a nose the size of a peacock's and acted very creepy. So overall they were trying to make the characters too much non-fictional, a clone of their persona from 1988.
It gets worse, because despite the directors trying to make the characters exactly like their real life counterparts, they completely distorted the truth of the situation, and painted Du Pont as too much as a drug driven demon. In real life he was a lifelong benefactor to the arts, discovered 10 species of birds that no one previously knew existed, and donated all of his money to charity and to a wrestler friend when he died. To put the icing on the cake, in the movie it seems as if Carrell came after Ruffalo because Ruffalo allowed his brother Channing to move away. They didn't indicate that any time had passed, and they also made sounds of young children at the time of his murder. His kids would no longer have been that young. This is because the murder took place in 1996, EIGHT YEARS AFTER the loss of Channing at the Olympics. Very inconsistent that the movie would bend the truth like this, while at the same time obsessing over making the characters so much like the real people.
Additionally the movie was bland and boring. It kept me watching, but I felt like I was watching the history channel analyzing an event that I was not interested in, being hosted by some creepy old guy who walked strangely. It seemed like more of a documentary than any sort of crime, drama, or thriller. At no point did I get nervous, sad, empathetic, happy, etc... no emotion from me at all the whole time watching, just yawns. Yawn, yawn, yawn.
I had a hard time understanding why this movie hasn't done so well at the box office, before I watched it. Solid cast, marketed well, and a familiar story for those born before early 80's. It didn't bomb, but it hasn't made it's money back, although there isn't information available about how it's done overseas. After watching it and seeing what a terrible movie it was, I now know. I suspect that the producers knew it was terrible, so rather than releasing it as a nationwide release, they gave a few little screenings at film festivals to gain some hype, then probably paid off or befriended a few others to say it was an Oscar contender, then soon enough it got enough interest to make some cash back. If they started with a nationwide release I think it would have done worse than Pluto, the biggest bomb of all time.