I really don't know how else to describe this film. The true story inspired a script of this sort that has success in finding some character rhythms but others that don't come off all that well. Really though, the problem here is in Jon Stewart's directing. At times it gets a bit too showy, too self- congratulatory. You can sort of tell that there's a sort of contradiction of tones happening. oh sure, one expects this sort of a film to be a downer, and in some ways the film has a certain dynamism in it that was probably not expected, but that doesn't make it all that good. It's not bad, but I have no passion for it whatsoever and I do think that Stewart needed to reel himself back in. Gael Garcia Bernal proves to be as strong of a protagonist as ever, though, and it's crazy that it looks like he hasn't aged a bit in ten years.