Interesting But Falls Short

Rating: 7/10 (11 January 2019)

7 April 2017. While there is a nicely, innovative, sweeping photographic technique used in the beginning credits and later in the movie, there potential sophisticated intelligence expected from a movie with this theme seems to be missing. Consider how Robert Redford performs his seemingly intriguing ploy without medicinal enhancement at decade earlier in Spy Game (2001). Or consider what Scarlett Johansson accomplished in Lucy (2014) three years later. The plot just seems to be missing the intelligence and the De Niro aspect might have been better just as its own stand alone little drama.