Author: suchasinistergame

You know what, Peter was right, Carl’s not that bad an actor at all! And the movie itself also wasn’t nearly as difficult to get through as I feared. It was genuinely engaging and although clearly pretty angsty, there were actually some properly amusing lines and moments in it too! I really did enjoy Carl’s performance and the way he delivered his lines very much – I think he brought the right measure of both callousness and vulnerability. I was bracing myself for a much more sordid movie, tbh, so I was in some sense relieved – but otoh what it lacked in grit it kind of made up for in a sort of general air of sadness. Which makes it sound weird to say I was “pleasantly surprised”, but that’s how I’d sum it up! Definitely worth watching anyway.