That Butler Just Butled His Way Out of My Heart

Rating: 2/10 (14 October 2015)

My wife and I watched the end of this movie, which was on FX, the other day, and we were particularly outraged by the scene with the butler talking to James Franco about cleaning his father's wound. The butler said that the wound came from his own blade. Therefore, he must have killed himself. That was the dumbest part of this movie. My wife thought that the butler's character was poorly acted. I also thought he could use some work on his acting. My wife was exasperated by the fact that a big-budget movie with so many stars (i.e. James Franco) would then pay such a low-rent actor to play the part of the butler who then had to tell a story about cleaning James Franco's father's wound. And somehow the butler, who wasn't there when James Franco's father died, used his butler skills to deduce that James Franco's father committed suicide. I mean, c'mon! Just because you know how to clean a wound doesn't make you a detective or a therapist. That butler ruined a perfectly good afternoon of watching FX for me. I stewed about this on my couch for a good two hours. My wife also stewed about this, but she did it in a different room.