Good, at best

Rating: 6/10 (12 May 2017)

I went into this film with high hopes. However, it did not live up to the hype for me. In fact, I often found it to be predictable and lack-luster. However, the film was still very well made and does a very good job of slowly building up the action. I found myself questioning if I was watching the right movie throughout the entire opening sequence of it because it seemed to be totally unrelated. There is a clever use of dialogue in this film in the sense that they carefully choose when would be appropriate to stick a music track in rather than drowning all of the dialogue in music. The cinematography itself was very modern in feel and had me forgetting that I was watching an older movie quite a few times. It does still have that "old movie" feel to it though which I believe is very appealing. However, the artistic form that it this movie has a hard time making up for the predictable, boring plot. The ending left me less than unimpressed.