Review of Foxcatcher (2014) by Everlastall — 15 Sep 2015

Hard to convey my feelings on this movie. All 3 leads are fantastic, but overall I just felt the story wasn't engaging enough to justify the movie itself because of it's disjointed qualities. It wasn't a waste by any means and it's obvious to see that many talented people were involved and sure gave it their all, it just feels like a lot of the movie is incidental.

. Most of the movie plays out and has a lot of interesting points, and then (without telling you) the movie's timeline skips almost a decade to get to the shock ending. The audience is then supposed to buy that the relationships and motivations between and of characters haven't changed a bit because we aren't informed about the big time gap between scenes.

It very much feels as if the movie is missing connective tissue to properly tie the ending to the rest of the movie. You could have told almost a completely different story before the ending and the ending would've fit just as well with it because of how non-tied to the main story it feels.

Of course, it's hard to give proper motivation to a mentally ill man in a based on a true story flick, but that doesn't make the ending any less abrupt and lacking closure for the story.