And Best Actor goes to:......Whoever convinced these talented people to be in such a crappy movie

Rating: 1/10 (18 September 2015)

In the words of Vice President Johnson when he heard Lincoln was shot: "This freaking sucks." Well put Mr. President. And I know if Johnson had been unfortunate enough to see this film, he would've desperately hoped to trade places with Lincoln on that fateful night. I really wanted to like this movie. It had great critical reviews and an outstanding cast. And I learned a valuable lesson from this movie. Just because there are impressive people behind a film, doesn't mean it won't be a steaming pile of dog feces. And in truth, I'm a fan of all these actors. Tom Hardy is always solid, Colin Firth has appeared in 3 Best Pictures, Gary Oldman was fantastic in The Batman series and Leon: The Professional. But jeez Gary, could you give us a little emotion or something? He had the same freaking bored expression on his face the entire movie. I mean no anger, no sorrow, no joy, no laughter, just this distant expression. How in the world was he nominated for Best Actor for this?? Even when he found out someone else was doing his wife the whole movie he was completely calm! And bored..... and it's beyond me how these writers can mention 10-15 characters' names in the beginning of the movie and expect us to remember who's who halfway through. I spent the entire movie thinking, "now who is that guy? Is he that guy that was talked about briefly 47 minutes ago?' I don't know this whole movie was complete garbage and it's a real waste of everyone's time. I have no idea how these acclaimed actors were convinced to be in this movie. My guess is the director kidnapped their wives and children and held them at gunpoint. Heck, that'd have made a more interesting movie!