It blew on my face after 30 minutes

Rating: 3/10 (25 July 2016)

Have you ever started a dish, found that you don't like it, and eat it all? It seems that, with movies, we are to watch the whole thing until the end, no matter how bad it is. Thankfully, more and more people began leaving the theaters when bored, and this is exactly what I did with this movie.
I watched some 30 minutes before deciding that enough was enough and left. It is not that the movie was awful, or the acting terrible, but for the life of me I could not get hooked on the story no matter how hard I tried.
The movie began in a very promising way, with very funny parts...and then, nothing. In retrospect I feel that the movie was more like a collection of funny gigs without a plot. Once the plot came, the movie went out of the window.
Ryan Gosling is very good. Funny and fresh. Not the same can be said about Russell Crowe who seems tired which would be fine if it wasn't for the fact that he is supposed to be an action type of guy. The rest gets lost to me.
By the time Kim Bassinger showed up I was ready to leave and left. I have no idea how the movie ended, so my 3 points are based on the initial performance of Russell and Gossling.
Another movie I really wanted to like and didn't make it. Pity.