Why?

Rating: 3/10 (22 June 2014)

Not a Brad Pitt fan -- when I watch him I never forget that it's HIM -- he doesn't seem to disappear into his roles (like Phillip Seymour Hoffman could do). Anyway, the high marks and buzz about this movie along with Jonah Hill's rave reviews made me take a look. But for more than two hours I wondered "Where is this thing going?" There seemed to be no real point to it, no real payoff, nothing. Once again, Pitt confirmed my earlier perception and he was always... him. An actor reciting a script in a movie that had no message aside from a new take on hiring players. Certainly not enough to hold my attention, and it makes me wonder how may layers of approvals it had to get -- or if the eye candy was enough to get executives to give it a green light.