Unlike most Sorkin, Molly's Game is not often funny, not always coherent and not very interesting.

Rating: 4/10 (14 February 2020)

It's a loaded biopic that doesn't know what to trim and what to focus on. There is electric, time-appropriate source material and potential here but it's squandered.
It's another example of a Director reigning in and refining a Writer's work as with prior Sorkin masterpieces. When let loose on his own work he's created a hyper-voice overed, bloated, flat picture with no real style or panache.
Sorkin's old tricks are old hat here, all a little too obvious when handled by himself. Jessica Chastain is hypnotic and dedicated but Molly's control seems to extricate all of the actual interesting parts of her own story.
It's not fun, not rich, not deep, not revealing, not emotional, not gripping, not cool, not particularly harrowing, it's very much only ok at best, and at worst, maybe actually disappointing.