A well acted but slowly paced drama

Rating: 5/10 (22 September 2016)

JGL is great and performed the voice and characteristics in Snowden extremely well. Certain subtleties in his performance added another diverse performance to his track list and one to mine. Unfortunately for most the movie, not a lot, or not enough happens. There are a solid amount of clichéd elements and scenes that took away from what could have been a more immersive and tension filled scene/experience. The soundtrack, while mainly absent throughout the film, was great and was able to evoke character and audience emotion(s) when one of the scores swells up, mainly when a scene of tension is done correctly. Shailene Woodly was surprisingly good, and was able to pull of her character extremely well. That ended up making it where her character was able to play of of JGL character. This movie is a great character study, but an OK, clichéd, and kind of boring Spy/Espionage movie. But i cant say i wasn't extremely immersed at some points and I think its worth a watch at matinée price. 6/10