Forget the story look at my acting

Rating: 6/10 (13 October 2019)

This was obviously an attempt by JP to win an Oscar and every scene reinforces this. For some reason it reminded me of Ben Stiller's Simple Jack character from Tropic Thunder because rather than being able to go with it and immerse yourself in the experience you just keep thinking "look at that acting". There are some scenes that serve no purpose except to showcase another aspect of JP's repertoire. Cityscape and dialogue/framing stolen shamelessly from Se7en. Very well shot and directed but not for me I'm afraid.