As others have noted, Mel Gibson gave a remarkable performance as the thoroughly deranged Walter Black. The supporting cast was excellent, too, particularly, Anton Yelchin as Black's estranged son and Jennifer Lawrence as the son's high school classmate. Nevertheless, I ended up detesting the film because of what to me was a vicious and unnecessary turn of events about two-thirds of the way through it. After that, I simply stopped caring and was sorry I had decided to watch The Beaver in the first place.
Jody Foster, as usual, gave a fine performance but I though less of her directorial skills. In addition to her to me questionable decision to include a plot point that was a turn off, I thought her film dragged throughout most of its middle section. Because of this it seemed far longer than its actual runtime of 91 minutes. Not recommended.
Jody Foster, as usual, gave a fine performance but I though less of her directorial skills. In addition to her to me questionable decision to include a plot point that was a turn off, I thought her film dragged throughout most of its middle section. Because of this it seemed far longer than its actual runtime of 91 minutes. Not recommended.