Loosely knit flashbacks at too great a speed

Rating: 5/10 (16 January 2018)

I hesitated to be critical in the way I'm about to be because of a few factors that I ask readers to keep in mind. I'm 71 and wear hearing aids. At home on my TV, I almost always have captions on because of my hearing problem. Still, But then, I already had trouble following all the dialogue in the West Wing. In "Molly's Game" getting the flashbacks was a similar experience for me: too fast, not quite clear enough who was who, and the connections with the current scene sometimes not quite clear enough and it went by too quickly to think about it as did much of the dialogue. That I have hearing and processing problems hardly means I don't understand and/or can't follow most films I see at the theater. I loved "The Post." Nor did I have trouble with "Molly's Game" because I'm not smart: I have a M.A. in philosophy from U.C. Davis. This film just seemed like Sorkin trying to outdo Sorkin with the snappiness. and speed of dialogue and more.