Anthony Hopkins and Al Pacino blot their CVs with a legal thriller that confounds for all the incorrect reasonsThis baffling legal thriller could be shown in film schools as a textbook example of how not to perform a movie. Every decision,be it plot, casting, and photography,sound, and probably even catering, and is a faulty one. Performances,particularly those of Hopkins (corrupt billionaire), Pacino (corrupt lawyer) and Malin Akerman (corrupt billionaire’s unhinged girlfriend), and reach world-class levels of set-munching dreadfulness.
Director Shimosawa is fond of ominous,slow camera pans that finally come to rest on something innocuous like a fridge. The score is thunderously silly. And the plot is so tangled that you start to wonder whether anyone actually read it before greenlighting the project.
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Source: theguardian.com