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I expected a lot more from this drama about a security guard being
wrongly accused of planting a bomb and having his life destroyed in the
process. Though the actor playing Jewell was good casting, and his mom too, Sam
Rockwell was too much like, well, Sam Rockwell. Olivia Wilde was a bit over the
top as well in her portrayal of a story-hungry journalist and not credible in
her regrets later on. The script would have needed a lot of tightening up. I
thought this was going to be one of these slow torture movies that spirals
tighter and tighter, creating painful and inescapable tension. Well, it was
slow alright. I pretty much got bored after 30 minutes and the expected finale
never quite materialised. Instead, everything sort of petered out [SPOILER] pretty
much like the case itself did. Also, I’m not sure you can call a film set in
the 90ies a “period piece” just yet, but they definitely did not try at all to
recreate the vibe. Very disappointing on that front, too.
So, barely
a 3/5. This could definitely have been done better.
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