What puzzles me with the Oscars...

Rating: Null/10 (8 April 2016)

By no means movies awarded the best movie academy award are the best out there. That's for sure. Neither Miss Universe is the "most beautiful woman in the world" etc.
I will probably fail to remember which movies won the Oscar the last 3 decades. Some of them are totally forgettable and makes you wonder if they were deserving a nomination in the first place. In my opinion "the best picture of the year" should be a game changing movie, that leaves you speechless while you are watching it and make a permanent imprint in your mind and soul.
Spotlight won the Oscar for the best movie of 2016. Was it worth it? In my opinion faaaar from it. Was it a bad movie? Of course not. But it is far from being great. It has adequate performances from the well known leads. A bright photography, which for me is always a plus, but...
Of course the premise touches a sensitive subject but it doesn't make an impact to the audience. You will hear: the number is not 13 it's more than that like 20 or even 90, and that is supposed to have an impact to the viewers, about the scale of child molestation from priests and a possible church cover-up, but it really hasn't. You hear 2-3 testimonies but you don't see the act, not even in the form of a flashback. So, for that, it is not effective.
I read some reviews praising how "controlled" this movie is. In my opinion that was a mistake for that subject. The testimonies weren't enough to draw a picture about the problem. Also there is no actual heroes here. The reporters just doing their work and the paper had the opportunity to do something years ago but let it slide.
Overall: I cannot understand how this movie is considered as the best of 2016. It is a mild ride. No surprises no heroes. A little bit on the boring side in its 2 hours 7 minutes duration. Nothing extraordinary. Just adequate as a film and far less than that as a statement against a serious problem of our societies.