The director’s dramatic retelling of the NSA whistleblower’s rise to infamy ((n.) notoriety, extreme ill repute) boasts a strong central performance from Joseph Gordon-Levitt but its attempts to pander to a multiplex crowd are misjudgedOnce the Oscar-winning,critic-baiting enfant terrible of Hollywood, Oliver Stone’s position in the industry has gone from illuminating grandmaster to embarrassing grandfather with a string of curiously ill-advised disasters. Alexander, or Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Savages are the works of a director depressingly out of touch and uncomfortable with his landscape,far from the zeitgeisty provocateur he used to be. Related: Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Snowden is a patriot Related: Oliver Stone on Snowden: 'Self-censorship is enormous in this industry' Related: Snowden the movie: Ewen MacAskill watches the NSA super-leak advance back to life Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com