peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2015 12 31 TheTwoFacesOfJanuary

The Two Faces of January

Thu, Dec 31, 2015./noise/movies | Link

Watched in the hope of getting the Oscar Isaac fix I didn't get from Star Wars. This is something of a The Talented Mr Ripley with Kirsten Dunst standing in for Gwyneth Paltrow, and Viggo Mortensen doing his best to anchor things. The film is inexcusably flaccid, doubly so given the strength of the cast, the settings and that writer/director Hossein Amini ably adapted Hardy's Jude the Obscure for the screen.