Pacing is Slow Bordering on being Creepy

Rating: 3/10 (7 March 2015)

This is based upon a true story
Billionaire John Dupont (Steve Carell) sets up a wrestling training complex on his Foxcatcher farm and invites former 1984 Olympic Gold Medalist Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) to lead a team to win the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea. Later Dupont gets Mark's brother, Dave (Mark Ruffalo) to join the team.
We see Steve Carell in a dramatic role as John DuPont. Carell is given a prosthetic nose for the role and most of the time he keeps his head high as if balancing the nose so it doesn't fall off. Why someone thought the prosthetic nose was needed is beyond my pay grade. Did the real John DuPont have this large a nose? Did the real John DuPont hold his head high? Apparently so. The nose is an issue in the sense that we couldn't help but notice it all the way through. My eyes never left the nose. Carell does a credible job and he should stick with drama as he was never funny as a comedian by my standards (you are tough).
This movie is very slow, the pacing borders on being creepy because we never know what is really going on between DuPont and Mark. Mark is introduced to drugs and booze, loses his edge in training and this is where DuPont gets brother Dave to join the team. Dave is also a former US Olympic Gold Medalist and seems to be a better leader of the team giving sound instruction all around. Mark feels slighted.
This is too slow bordering on being creepy mostly because the long silences between character dialogues by almost everyone. We thought there might be some homo-erotic play going on, but the movie never goes there and we are left with these uncomfortable silences. If the pacing was quicker this could have been a better story hence movie. This movie will be forever remembered by the slow pacing (hey,don't forget the nose) and not for the actors and what eventually happens. Not good.
We do get to see the DuPont estate and surrounding landscapes, at times, and these scenes are pure gold. It is here we didn't mind the slow pacing.
Steve Carell was nominated for Best Actor and Mark Ruffalo for Best Supporting Actor. The director was nominated for Best Director. . There was also a nomination for Best Writing – original screenplay. The dialogues were pretty good, but the silences over-powered them. (3/10
Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: Backsides briefly from a distance when wrestlers were being weighed. Drug use: Yes. Language: No.