Words, words, words

Rating: 6/10 (12 April 2018)

Not a good movie. Somewhere buried in this mess is a good story. The acting by Jessica Chastain is strong, as usual. The trouble is it's all talk and the talk is too fast, a diarrhea of words.
The movie fails as a film adaptation of a book; it doesn't translate a book into a movie. Instead, it tries to BE the book: Too many unnecessary details, which might have been fine in the book, clutter & choke this movie (for example, technical poker). It's also too long, obsessively constipated.
This is wordsmith, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut. He needs to learn that what works on the page doesn't necessarily work on the screen; he needs to visualize.
(The fed prosecutors remind one of Robt. Mueller, btw).