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Gosling, Mulligan, and Perlman, and Brooks: all wasted in this commonality.

Posted by tinear on September 27, 2011 at 14:57:03:
Brooks: he has but several short scenes. Seeing a calm guy resort to the most sadistic violence isn't unexpected anymore; it's become a trope. He reminded me of Dustin Hoffman in that film wherein he played a murderer--- not believable, at all.
Gosling and Mulligan: bad decision not to have them take a chance on love. Because it was left unexplained, the lack of a relationship just looked, well, like another attempt to create something interesting by doing the unexpected.
A very, very good film mining the same theme, but one that struck platinum, was Michael Mann's, "Thief," with James Caan, Tuesday Weld, James Belushi. You want scary? Robert Prosky shows how it's done: his "Let me be your friendly uncle" role truly is memorable.
Is it fair to compare the films? Yes, because to praise a piece of poop is to diminish not just those that have taken the effort, it allows crappy films to be made because those involved are NOT held to a higher standard.
Almost always when a foreign director comes to Hollywood, he comes a cropper. This film continues a sad tradition.