messy

Rating: 5/10 (28 November 2013)

The real problem with this movie is that it doesn't know what it wants to be. I don't understand what the director was aiming at. The film tries to be Mystic River and Seven at the same time. Was it a drama? Was it trying to be suspenseful? It fails both way. It's too full of thriller clichés to feel dramatic, it's too morally ambiguous to be an entertaining thriller. Everything is quite good: acting is great, the atmosphere too, and Villeneuve is a great director. But all the ingredients just don't blend together, I felt like I was watching two different movies at the same time. Still trying to understand what the ending is supposed to mean.