Bland as a high concept movie can be

Rating: 4/10 (22 June 2014)

I'll keep this short: at some point in any story, the main character should show at least a small degree of something human. In this film, the protagonist Chris Wilton barely changes expression, gives us no reason to believe all these people around him would come to like him.
What he risks to do the things he does is some vague thought that having played his way to comfort he'd hate to go back to a lesser lifestyle. His job is high paying but he isn't saving the world. He's caught between two women who he doesn't much like and who like him far more than the script gives them reasons to.
Woody being Woody. Rounding up some competent good-looking actors (not a huge Scarlett J fan myself but she comes off both beautiful and believable here, she at least gets an A) and trying to pay homage to a classic dead novelist, he winds up with a stylish two hours of ho-hum that might con some critics into thinking its arty but sure isn't entertaining.