Describing this as a thriller was probably a bad idea, as it seems to have led a lot of reviewers to expect car chases, gunfights and things blowing up. It's a much subtler film than that.
This is an intelligent and intriguing film with some excellent performances. Some reviewers seem to have found the character of JM Sinclair, feted novelist and domestic tyrant, unbelievable - I only wish it were! Surely the pantheon of American literary lions proves it is anything but.
It does make a couple of missteps, however - the moment when Liam confronts Sinclair with what he knows doesn't quite land, and are we really supposed to believe that Liam's memory, however remarkable, allows him to recall a novel word for word from reading it once?!? That stretches credulity. I also wish Julie Delpy had been given more to do, she is underused here.
Anyway, we should be grateful that films like this are being made, an island of intelligence in the midst of a sea of Marvel comics idiocy.
This is an intelligent and intriguing film with some excellent performances. Some reviewers seem to have found the character of JM Sinclair, feted novelist and domestic tyrant, unbelievable - I only wish it were! Surely the pantheon of American literary lions proves it is anything but.
It does make a couple of missteps, however - the moment when Liam confronts Sinclair with what he knows doesn't quite land, and are we really supposed to believe that Liam's memory, however remarkable, allows him to recall a novel word for word from reading it once?!? That stretches credulity. I also wish Julie Delpy had been given more to do, she is underused here.
Anyway, we should be grateful that films like this are being made, an island of intelligence in the midst of a sea of Marvel comics idiocy.