Sorkin running himself into a slightly boring corner

Rating: 6/10 (18 February 2018)

I miss the days when Aaron Sorkin put effort into writing stories, like Malice, A Few Good Men, or The American President. Sometime since, he fell so much in love with his own formula (characters delivering fast monologues involving random facts, statistics, distorting each others words into new meanings) that he doesn't seem to care about story any more. Apparently the audience will salivate and be duly aroused by yet another cutesy bit of fast-talking dialogue that could be about anything.
Put simply, the story of Molly Bloom could have been told in half an hour. Heck, a 3 minute montage could have done it. Dragging it out to 2 hours 20 is just... silly. This is NOT an epic story. Its not even particularly interesting - the result has nothing in particular to do with anything. Jessica Chastain plays EXACTLY the same character as in the utter-Sorkin-imitation Miss Sloane.
I was really hoping it would end soon, and there was still an hour left. Yes, Sorkins writing can be 'amusing' here and there, but most its taxing and irritating, people simply don't speak like that in real life, and it seems a real shame to let it get in the way of telling a good story. There isn't one here.