Review of Richard Jewell (2019) by Imthenoob — 19 Aug 2020

I think the most frustrating thing about this movie is that the cast does a fine job but there is no real emotion, there is a severe disconnect that really prevents this movie from reaching a deeper level than what it could have. And that is what prevents it from being a truly great drama.

The cast is fine, The directing is fine. It's just the writing that really causes this lack of personal and emotional exploration for Richard, who really is portrayed as kind of a simple person, rather than someone who's life is genuinely being torn apart for doing absolutely nothing wrong. He is portrayed as a one-trick pony when I am sure the real-life counterpart was jumping up and down the emotional spectrum through all of this.

I wish they did better in that regards and it really prevents the movie from being any good.