4/10
Proof a film can be ruined with bad music.
24 July 2016
Every time I tried to get into this movie that God-awful score would chime in. A combination of elevator music and unlicensed mall tracks. Next thing this Leonard Cohen song came out of nowhere like a glass of water in a desert-gone too quickly. Now, I've become accustomed to these things bothering me more than others, so suffice to say the music killed this film for me, anyway.

Thankfully the acting was quite good. The cinematography was generic. You know, don't use drones just because you can. A movie is not a car advertisement, it's a film. Put the camera where the story dictates, not where it looks pretty. A great filmmaker can do both, but we can't all be great. The camera is a character: it should have a point of view. What are we saying with this angle? Ah, forget that, the people from the camera-crane rental are here.

On the plus side the chemistry between Rudd and Roberts was great. Roberts was good as usual. Rudd did a fine job. A more straight role suits him. He should try drama more often.
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