Too fast to tell a story properly

Rating: 6/10 (31 January 2014)

Another movie in a series I've seen lately that I didn't like. It almost looks like some trend in Hollywood movies these days: start promising an interesting story, even develop it up to a point (careful! not too deep!) and the end abruptly and leave the viewer with a bunch of question marks above the head (I believe the proper expressing for this is "wtf?!). So, the story was promising (getting into deep dungeons of friendship/rivalry/antagonisms of main characters) but it ended up wandering around almost random scenes from their lives and ending ,as usual, just when it becomes interesting. Now something on the "technical aspects of the craft": Cast is very good and so are the performances (two main characters only), as well as editing. The direction can be described as "somewhat too nervous and erratic", probably following the script. There were some good ideas but, unfortunately, not developed properly. As if producers said: no money for a second more. Too bad. It could have been a really good movie. But it isn't.