Just... really really bad.

Rating: 1/10 (4 January 2016)

I'll never get those two hours of my life back. I feel cheated. This was a very badly made movie. It wasn't clever or black comedy nor grotesque and provoking alla Fellini. De Niro was appalling. Not sure what has happened of late but his on screen presence is lacking substance and I can't quite work out what has gone wrong. He was one of my favourite actors and now I can't bear to watch him on screen. Thank God for Bradley Cooper and Isabella Rosselini who managed to have enough class to transcend this drivel. When Bradley Cooper came on the screen I could control my desire to walk out of the theatre and sit through this movie. Jennifer Lawerence did a good job and was very centred and contained in her role but poor direction and Luke-warm writing didn't give her much to go on. Also I now have mopophobia.