Great emotion play

Rating: 6/10 (10 July 2015)

The movie is nicely loaded with enough emotion play about Maria's memories. The build up is quite strong with all those flashbacks alternating with the main story. It's a bit lacking though since the actual moment of the uncle commissioning Klimt to paint the portrait didn't really had a scene in those flash backs. Yet I find the movie lacks very much in addressing the main story's flow. The main story doesn't really flow that well, especially on the relations between Randy and Maria.It's quite unclear of how Randy can really get any interest to the case at the very first place. Also there can be more potential in the moment where Randy persuade Maria to go at the first place. The acting overall is adequate, although I see Helen Mirren only doing her accent well and didn't really gave her best performance here. Ryan Reynolds is really having difficulties in adjusting to his character.