A good movie and a missed opportunity

Rating: 6/10 (5 September 2016)

This movie is difficult to decipher.
It is based on a true story and that story is absurd (in a good way). Therefore the ground material is very valuable, the story flows almost always very precisely from point A to point B, without messing around too much. Maybe a couple of small subplots were unnecessary and made the movie a little bit longer than it should be.
The actors' performances are very convincing, Jonah Hill is confirming to be a great actor, pulling off a great performance yet again.
What I didn't like about the movie is that it lacks in personality. It seems to me that they wanted to keep a bright tone while narrating very dark events. They are telling a very upsetting story about how the army is getting its weapons, but it looked to me that the movie doesn't take a stand on that matter. I can't really define it better than just saying: the narration is too flat. It looks like it is denouncing something, but it doesn't really do that.
In other words, it is a movie of half measures.
Probably they could have achieved a much better result by explaining better the transitions in the behavior of the characters, that are, instead, something that simply happens on the screen.