Felt Over-hyped

Rating: 6/10 (11 October 2015)

As I walked out of the movie theater I felt a little disappointed. What I had just watched felt incomplete. It finally dawned on me that I was overwhelmed by the massive hype created around the movie. It may be because I was carrying a lot of expectation from it built on days of watching the trailers/videos and reading reviews on the internet.
It's a typical hit-man film with a dated story line. Save for the excellent acting by Benecio Del Toro and the fantastic cinematography by Roger Deakins, this film failed to deliver on three basic fronts - the story line, character development and its supposedly "lead" actor acted out by Emily Bunt. The film failed to impress by giving Emily Bunt's point of view of the story while the real hero of the movie actually was Benicio Del Toro.
Emily Bunt's character in the literal sense was a highly irritating one throughout the length of the movie. She was highly vulnerable at the start of the movie and ended quite meekly as well giving up her so called "ideology" to the threat of bullet. What happened to her partner (Daniel Kaluuya) and Josh Brolin's character at the end is left to a guess.
The pace of the movie was surprisingly slow. I was expecting a fast paced thriller (which is actually what the trailers portrayed). The moment you felt the tension building up would explode into something the scene would actually roll into another one.
6/10