Pretty good

Rating: Null/10 (11 January 2015)

In terms of entertainment, I can't give this anything less than an 8. It gets the job done well. It also has very good acting. Saarsgard is very effective as the main supporting character, and Jake Gyllenhaal gives another very good turn in a career already full of them, although he would prove to be able to give even better turns in meatier material later on in his career (like in 2014's Nightcrawler). The film's technical aspects are very good. When it comes to the themes and what it's trying to say, that's when it gets to be a little too murky, and whereas it's pretty much flawed. But considering the reviews, I had low expectations and so maybe that's why I was as pleasantly surprised as I was.