JK Simmons is Amazing

Rating: 9/10 (12 February 2015)

This was the most exhilarating film I've seen this year, which is surprising given my love of both Interstellar & American Sniper. J.K. Simmons (who will ALWAYS be Vern Schillinger from HBO's "OZ" to me) turns in perhaps the best performance of his career. The tension in nearly every scene of the film is palpable & it's that edginess that drives the film. Ultimately a story of the cost to achieve excellence on the surface with an undertone that also touches on current society's state of complacently. This duality in the message I believe the writer is attempting to convey, is genius in the internal conflict it creates for the audience. Highly recommended and inspirational in a self looking glass sense.