Wasted potential.

Rating: 5/10 (10 July 2013)

I'd been quite excited about Win Win for a little while. It looked like an enjoyable indie film in the vein of Lars and the Real Girl and I always love Paul Giamatti. Unfortunately, it's frustratingly boring. There's very little themes, character development, use of metaphors or anything meaningful. It just seems like a bunch of bland stuff thrown together and called a film. Most of the jokes are cheap shots and the drama would've only worked if it actually meant something. Sometimes the acting is good and sometimes I quite liked the photography but the lack of insight into the characters and into the wrestling itself just meant I didn't buy any of it. Such wasted potential. At least it's a little lesson in what not to do for a film as I can see as a writer I used to just chuck stuff in that didn't mean anything like in Win Win. This is the indie equivalent to a banal Hollywood movie but at least it presumably didn't cost as much.
5/10