Okay...this is certainly not bad, at least as far asthe acting goes. But this is definitely not excellent, or anywhere close to a true 7.9 rating.
The plot is not very interesting, certainly not creative nor well developed. At times it feels like the product of a desperate and artificial quest for sub-plots like the one about the paedophile and his mum in order just to fill out the 2-hour package. Character development is a bit shallow as we do not really know what constituted to and started the unhappy and dysfunctional marriages the lead characters were enduring. The part in which Patrick Wilson passionately invited Kate Winslet to run with him is just so......unconvincing that I could not help laughing out. The way the whole movie was structured and layered and the narratives which are highly reminiscent in content and style of a particular popular American TV series makes me think whether I was really watching an extended episode of Desperate Housewives! Okay...enough from me.
I try to make a bold guess that most of the votes which have contributed to the strong rating of this movie largely came from an American audience. Sorry to say this but the truth is there are so many more higher quality movies better than this elsewhere than within the four corners of America, which indeed truly deserve this rating. Look further!
The plot is not very interesting, certainly not creative nor well developed. At times it feels like the product of a desperate and artificial quest for sub-plots like the one about the paedophile and his mum in order just to fill out the 2-hour package. Character development is a bit shallow as we do not really know what constituted to and started the unhappy and dysfunctional marriages the lead characters were enduring. The part in which Patrick Wilson passionately invited Kate Winslet to run with him is just so......unconvincing that I could not help laughing out. The way the whole movie was structured and layered and the narratives which are highly reminiscent in content and style of a particular popular American TV series makes me think whether I was really watching an extended episode of Desperate Housewives! Okay...enough from me.
I try to make a bold guess that most of the votes which have contributed to the strong rating of this movie largely came from an American audience. Sorry to say this but the truth is there are so many more higher quality movies better than this elsewhere than within the four corners of America, which indeed truly deserve this rating. Look further!