Polished, Tame and Lacking

Rating: 7/10 (28 June 2015)

A watchable movie with nothing really spectacular to set it apart. It does bring a certain drama into play though with holocaust context while leaving the atrocities to a tamer depiction, grasped only in abstract. You sense that the aim of the story is the emotional hyphen as the subject for the procession of the plot remains in second plan. When the fairy tale ending comes, you feel robbed of realism but it is a real story so, we have to live with that embellished portrayal of Maria Altman memoir polished by Hollywood. But I still have my doubts on Ryan Reynolds's character, the most of the time jobless lawyer who defies financial conundrum and judicial barriers with relative ease for a so called novice, adequately supporting his family and life while being dedicated to a long and expensive endeavor he does not know will pay out. And that was annoying to digest.