Eileen is a case of not enough happening in the first two acts and too much happening in the 3rd act. Because for most of the first 2/3rds I just couldn't figure out where the film was going. Sometimes for better but sometimes it meant that a lot of those portions dragged considerably. The 3rd act takes a pretty drastic change that I found pretty intriguing but I don't think had enough set up to fully justify. It made me wish that the script focused on a different perspective than it did in retrospect. The ending is also pretty abrupt and left me with more questions than answers. Thomasin Mackenzie and Anne Hathaway are great though and every scene that they share are when the film was at it's most captivating. It's also very well shot with a really good 60's like aesthetic. Eileen as is was a pretty intriguing ride but it's hard not to think that there's better version of this story existed in the script somewhere.
Review of Eileen
