Every year, there seems to be one film from a big film festival that just doesn't match the hype. Usually that film comes from Sundance, but this year it comes from Cannes.
Foxcatcher is that film. The film plays like a funeral. There's no life to it. It drags. And drags. And drags.
I've heard this film is some kind of great dissection of American society. All I really got from it was something that I already knew: the idle rich have too much money and are accorded too much respect because of that money. Thanks for that insight, guys.
I'm not going to say this is a horribly made film. On a technical level, it is well made. Steve Carell plays the one note of John DuPont very well. But it is one note. Channing Tatum impressed me more with a much more complicated person as portrayed in the film.
Ultimately, this film felt like homework. Except I did not feel educated at the end.
Grade: C-
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