Review of Pawn Sacrifice (2015) by Jhep — 28 Sep 2015
........the direction of this film is SO HEAVY HANDED that I soon felt numb and then indifferent and bored........it feels like a 1970s Made-for-TV movie that used to make a lot of sense when you were 12 years old i.
E., everything gets TELEGRAPHED to you in scene after scene and those ominous words "dumbed down" soon hover over every scene...... the scattered all-over-the-map script seems to be searching in vain for a focus to help organize the material.
......to moderate this criticism somewhat, I would add that biography can be one of the most unforgiving film genres there is.......
This review of Pawn Sacrifice (2015) was written by Jhep on 28 Sep 2015.
Pawn Sacrifice has generally received positive reviews.
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