Quick movie review: "I Care A Lot" (spoilers)

[RoryN]

Rosamund Pike = excellent

Dianne Wiest = excellent (as always)

Peter Dinklage = great, given what he had to work with

Direction: garbage. Never fully succeeds as dark comedy. The bumbling henchmen were like nails on a chalkboard & didn't lighten the film. Lazy script (e.g. no way her woefully-underdeveloped girlfriend character returns to the house for passports; no way they let her live, etc.). Rushed ending with a "New Jack City"-esque tacked-on resolution that doesn't give full come-uppance for the anti-heroine. If Alec Baldwin had played Pike's character, reviewers would have hated it. It all sort of works because it...cheats.

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[LukSkyFokker]

Rosamund Pike = excellent

Dianne Wiest = excellent (as always)

Peter Dinklage = great, given what he had to work with

Yes, the parts were greater than the sum in this case.

*SPOILERS*

Direction: garbage. Never fully succeeds as dark comedy. The bumbling henchmen were like nails on a chalkboard & didn't lighten the film. Lazy script (e.g. no way her woefully-underdeveloped girlfriend character returns to the house for passports; no way they let her live, etc.). Rushed ending with a "New Jack City"-esque tacked-on resolution that doesn't give full come-uppance for the anti-heroine. If Alec Baldwin had played Pike's character, reviewers would have hated it. It all sort of works because it...cheats.

Chime in if you've seen it!

The first 1/3 was great and engaging but got lame after the torture/car in the water scene. Dinklage tells the bumbling henchmen to make it look "natural" after she has ligature marks on her ankles and wrists. Plot hole.

After the water scene, it just got random as fuck. Plus, the lesbian thing seemed a little extra.

I didn't expect that she would become his guardian and go into business, that was pretty cool.

The end was meh. I forgot about that dude, which I'm sure was the goal but it, again, seemed forced.

 

[thør]

I liked it.

 

[KinkyLaughs]

I liked it A lot.

 

[Adre]

Not bad. Any excuse to look at Pike for a couple of hours.