Watch the film for the performances of people not called Mark Wahlberg or Amy Adams

Rating: 8/10 (3 August 2016)

Mark Wahlberg plays a role that he has played many times before, so don't watch it for him. Also, the script is rather soft when it comes to his narrative. It's just typical Hollywood fluff and I honestly can't tell the difference between this performance and his performance in The Big Hit.
Watch it instead for the performance by Christian Bale and the clever writing that surrounds his character. Some good use of dramatic irony and some really effective use of unreliable narrator. The writing that surrounds many of the other characters is also quite solid.
I guess that's the films biggest flaw, the main story line is pedestrian and the acting by the lead similar. Like often happens with based on a true stories, I get the impression that that fact is meant to impress me and make me interested in the main character. What they really needed to do was rely less on that for the main, and more on solid writing.