Excellent story, moderate execution

Rating: 7/10 (20 November 2014)

To be honest, the title pretty well sums it up. This was a movie made by a screenwriter, and in my opinion, it would have been better off in more capable hands. I feel like an excellent choice for this style would have been David Fincher. However, while the film we are presented has its flaws in storytelling ability, the story it is telling is well worth watching. Gyllenhall delivers another in a series of stand-out performances as one of the creepiest and most unnerving characters I have seen in a film. The cinematography was well done, but nothing too noteworthy, and James Newton Howard's score (one of my favourite composers) was rather unnoticeable. That said, the story and the performance (along with a few seat-gripping moments) are enough for me to recommend this movie to you, and hopefully the ending will leave you as shocked as it left me.