Probably "too realistic" for its own good

Rating: 6/10 (19 September 2019)

The characters are all "too mundane". Even the obsessed character (often overacted) is quite bland (not Jake Gyllenhaal's fault, because he's awesome), let alone the incredible amount of police officers and detectives that we came across through the movie.
All the performers look bored except Mark Ruffalo (clearly the heart and soul of the film). And even he gets axed for the conclusion in the third act (almost all Jake). I don't understand why Robert Downey Jr. was cast for this. He was pathetic. I didn't believe for a second he was a journalist. Not even a bad one. And he barely matters anyway.
In the end, the movie is sterile. Almost like a mediocre documentary that can't create a narrative, this movie jumps so much trough time without giving the characters screentime to reflect and suffer the consequences of an unresolved case, that (probably intentionally) doesn't allow the viewer to feel anything for anybody. The movie wants you to focus on the minutia of the police work and that gets old.