Well acted, but extremely predictable. Scorsese´s worst, and very forgetable

Rating: 5/10 (5 May 2019)

After getting asked why I had not seen this movie I decided to give it a try. Sadly it was not nearly as good as mention by friends, but still watchable and the acting really saves the movie.
The first 5min of the movie reminded me a bit of the start of The Shining. Same hunting music, same feeling, and similar start heading to this weird place with weird people. But I also immidately starting to notice a few things and after 7min I had already figured the movie out, and with the first flashback I could almost recite the whole movie without having seen it yet.
The movie is (mostly) well made, and the acting mostly superb. Sadly, and strangely, it is the directing that feels off - and since the story is very predictable, it lowers the movie quality considerably. The film also feels a little pretentious since it want to be a deep Oscars-winning-mystery-of-the-mind sort of a movie, but since the story is very easy to figure out and is not even close to original, and since the directing is not top notch (yea, I am still surprised) it does not work. The movie comes off more as a university student attempt to re-do Jacob´s Ladder.
I tried to twist the movie around in my own head, perhaps it really was true, perhaps they are trying to make him see things and think things because he really did see the truth, but nah, it did not work. IF that was the intention, I would be much more happy with the movie, but sadly I gave more thought to the movie than the movie makers did...
The movie is still worth a watch since the acting is so good, but my 5/10 is actually kind of generous. One of Scorsese´s worst, perhaps THE worst movie that genius has ever made.
If you want to see a similar attempt to explore the human psyche, but much better made and also very original, then I would suggest that you look at Sucker Punch which is a masterpiece, this is not.