Cheating the viewer

Rating: Null/10 (8 December 2017)

After seeing Seven, I wanted more of Fincher misled by the general perception that the director is the key person involved in developing a story. The delays in production made the film more tempting, yet at a certain point I have lost interest and forgot about it.
It is a long, slow, and mostly boring movie. Almost 3 hours to reach no conclusion. And to fill up the time, you have speculations and fantasy related with the dead victims. A work of fantasy sold as true story. Yet every story injected leads to bam! bam! all dead.
Like a Lord of the Rings movie, Fincher makes an elf story. Sure, the costume is a high fidelity reproduction of a drawing. Was the guy like that? Maybe he was wearing a clown costume like in Stephen King's It. Here, like in It or Lord of the Rings, the shown reality blends seamlessly with imagination.
And the backdrops? Each and every one looks like some vintage post card or magazine advert from the 1960s. All I could see was Fincher's old man nostalgia and an absurdly big budget. The story is not helped. And it becomes every cornier once you notice that the newspaper scenes are simply copies of the All the President's Men.
A waste of good time.
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