like a runner on running with two outs and a full count ...

Rating: 1/10 (9 June 2014)

It would be nice if IMDb had a zero rating since this is one that needs one ... first off, I'm floored by the number of people who were 'shocked' by the ending ... not bragging or anything but i saw it coming a mile away ... anything that obvious to me who doesn't have a 'detective'-like mind makes it even more surprising ...
secondly, while i know nepotism is as rife in this mean old world as it always has been but it's hard to believe that Casey Affleck could get a job any other way ... if it was just in movies his brother has directed or written, then i could understand why he has a career in movies confined, as mentioned, to ones his brother has some control over ... but since he is hired elsewhere, perhaps i am too critical of his talent but somehow i think i am not ... i must lean toward his family somehow having accumulated compromising pictures and/or videos of top film financiers throughout the film industry in order to force others' hand in casting him again and again ... he is quite simply on a level of talent no higher that your everyday former athlete-turned-actor ... and i would suggest perhaps you envision the worst of that lot to get an idea of where i rank his acting ability so not only is one of the principal roles ineptly handled by the director's brother, but the entire film is a stumbling array of boring scene after boring scene ... perhaps this aided in my figuring out the 'surprise ending' so early on in that quite frankly my mind did not have much to do other than think of other things since the movie was so boring ...
it breaks my heart to see good talent wasted ... talent such as Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, and Amy Madigan as well as John Toll whose name i have noticed through the years connected with some truly great movies as a cinematographer and director of photography ... it's a shame they were involved in this shoddy product ...
unless it is absolutely necessary (such as keeping peace in my marriage lol) i will never sit through another movie involving either Affleck brother ..