Surprisingly thin script and one-dimensional characters

Rating: 6/10 (30 January 2015)

This could have been a decent TV film. The story is easy to follow, complex facts are simplified and repeated. The problems begin with the fact that it was made for a theatrical distribution. That is where it fails miserably. In that context the direction, cinematography and editing are just OK. The biggest problem is, without a doubt, the script. Characters are flat and sadly no one has enough material to work with, a part from the lead actor and the film cannot ride on a brilliance of one man, even if it is Mr. Cumberbatch himself; just as good storytelling cannot rely solely upon the importance of the story being told. Wasted potential.