Courageous story, boring film

Rating: 6/10 (24 November 2016)

I was drawn to this film by the a-list actors and the many underrated actors. The acting was perfectly fine. To be honest it was nice watching Chris Pine play a character who was basically opposite all his usual roles. Ben Foster is always something different and always great to watch. But the acting couldn't hold my attention alone.. The film runs one hour and fifty-seven minutes. Truly with all the drawn out scenes on reactions and moments of silence, they could cut out like thirty minutes of the entire film. I don't need a main stream film with a bunch of dumb action but with the lack of dialog in many moments that they try and make dramatic by long silences, I can't. I couldn't keep my attention on the film and I'm not one to text or use any other device but I still spaced out. The story is really cool only because it's true. But this is why most films based on real life are fibbed a little bit to make them more entertaining for the audience. Truly, I don't think they would need to do that but just trim and edit a lot out. All in all it's not exactly fair that I didn't like the film because of the pacing and editing but I just didn't like it and that's the fact.