Whoops. Epic fail.

Rating: 1/10 (14 December 2018)

I have to admit that I got suckered into watching this 'disappointment on steroids' all the way to the end. The stellar cast, the high end production, and the vast cornucopia of metaphor that the quieter moments at the beginning of the film seemed to promise forced me to sit through the entire 'product' to the confusing and pointless end....But IN the end, it was little more than a HUGE budget B-grade horror movie that failed to deliver ANYTHING that warranted sticking with it to the end....A film that could have been a really fine symbolic masterpiece.
And lemme go another level here. Even though I recognized the director's name after I was compelled to google the details, I did so expecting to find that David O Russell was the director. The close shots with a hand held camera are his domain. And considering that Lawrence is his muse as Mastroianni is to Fellini, I would have hedged my bets in that direction. So this was a Trojan-Horse rip-off of another director that failed horribly.