Excellent movie...

Rating: 9/10 (25 January 2018)

I'm not sure what is with the harshness of every single review now days, I don't know if it's just cool to hate everything and have absolutely no joy in your life anymore, but I'm sick of it so I am going to start reviewing more movies now. At the very least the ones that I feel aren't being given a fair chance or rating. Seems like every single movie just gets slammed now days.
This movie is excellent. I have to start off by saying that I haven't read the book, so if you're the type of person who's read the book and are excited to see the adaptation, I cannot comment on whether you'll be disappointed or not. Movies rarely seem to live up to the book though there are exceptions of course so let's not get stuck on that. I just feel like it's very hard for a two hour film to live up to who knows how many hours you spent on the book. There's only so much they can do with the time they have.
I personally went into this movie knowing nothing about it besides what I saw in trailer and read in the plot synopsis here on IMDB. And the movie was fantastic. Now I have to say, the trailer gave me the impression that the movie was sort of a comedy, and to me the movie was quite different. It has a tiny bit of comedic relief here and there but it is a fairly serious film. The trailer does not do the movie justice.
The movie does try to be a puzzling "who done it," but towards the end you may be able to figure out what's going on. This doesn't subtract from the movie at all. It's well written and adapted, and EXCELLENTLY acted. I would suggest people watch this for the acting alone, it's fantastic.
This a great little film and I loved all of it. It's unique, has a great setting, and enough mystery to keep you wondering for almost the entirety of it. It has a fantastic cast of A-list actors, all of whom play their well written parts extremely well. There's a bit of comedy sprinkled in here and there, and it's a very enjoyable hour and forty-eight minutes or so.