I care a Lot

A crooked legal guardian who drains the savings of her elderly wards meets her match when a woman she tries to swindle turns out to be more than she first appears.

I watched this a few weeks ago with great expectations. I love actors like Peter Dinklage, Rosamund Pike and Dianne Wiest.  This is also the kind of movie that has always appealed to me, and judging by the commercials, it's great.  After watching it, it is not as bad  and does not deserve the lowest rating, which shows that it has no redeeming value and is just as good.

Human thought goes against what is said to give it its measure. With all That said This is a movie in two parts; One is good, the other is terrible. Disorganized is a good word to describe it. It has a lot going for it.

The best of these is Pike, disguised as a murderer, who plays a more amoral character than Amy Dunne in Gone Girl. It really bothered me, just like his character should. Dinklage has never been this bad, and his chemistry with Parker in the second half is chilling. Eiza Gonzalez's performance is full of charisma and intensity, her chemistry with Pike is intense, and I personally don't think she's over the top for what she represents.

I was also impressed by the always good West, who is the only down-to-earth character in the movie. The visuals are stylish and have a gritty-thriller quality that's almost an homage to spaghetti westerns. The music is atmospheric and full of energy without being over the top. The text in the first half is tense, sometimes darkly comedic/satirical, and often chilling, leaving people disturbed by the disgusting events taking place.

In fact, The first half is very good. Fast-paced, funny, tense, and appropriately disturbing and frightening, this lie really does happen, and the movie does a good job of making the horror of it all and how it all comes down to him as easy as possible. The direction of the first half is stylistically sharp and strictly political. Unfortunately the second half of  is not that good and feels like a bad movie. It's pretty bad for the most part, almost bordering on the worst, and only the acting, the chemistry between Pike and Dinklage, their performances, and the visuals save this.

The tension is gone, the emotion and suspense is gone and the garbage is over the top. There are some truly unbelievable and ridiculous moments that I found to be over the top (this could easily have been twenty minutes shorter) and stupid. The attempts to kill people in particular have to be seen to be believed, and not in a good way.

The incompetence of the mafia is equally awful, once the meeting is lost it just flows and becomes cheesy and self-indulgent. The quality of the directing is also problematic and stupid for a paid action thriller. Once the goal is achieved the result is immediate and immediate. The ending was good at first but really disappointing in the second half. 

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