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2.5/4
If nothing else, Steve Carell is really creepy.
Indyfreak - wrote on 03/25/15
Bennett Miller's dramatization of the bizarre and ultimately tragic relationship developed between a reclusive millionaire and a sibling pair of Olympian wrestlers features fantastic performances from its three main actors. Steve Carrell is especially good as John DuPont, the lonely and volatile sports promoter (and black sheep of his family) who sets the plot in motion in an effort to claim something for himself to be proud of. The story IS good and the direction is solid but the pacing is often glacially slow and timeline of events as they occur is sometimes confusing. As other reviews posted for this release have already noted, little is laid out to the audience who has to figure out things for themselves at times. It is not necessarily a bad thing for a movie to do this (especially these 'true story' types) but when the inspiration behind it is not as well-known as is needed to understand the significance of certain events as they happen in the movie-it's frustrating and takes you out of the experience.
