Review of Spotlight (2015) by Cronlee — 04 Mar 2016

I am giving this low score because this movie bored me to tears. 90% of the screen shots are people working in offices, drinking coffee, carrying laptops around from office to office to restaurant ... reminded me of my days working as an office temp. The subject-matter I think is what got it the Oscar - but the.

Filming was, in addition to being office-bound, was not distinctive; the score has already been satirized in Burn After Reading (among others); the actors had zero charismal; and the plot was totally cliched [SPOILER ALERT] - down to the shots of the newspaper finally rolling out copies with the truth, which has been around since the 1930s: and actuallly were not that relevant to the post-9/11 era - shots of computer screens downloading the news would have been more a propos. You could have made a much more interesting movie if there had been more screen time devoted to the criminals, the victims, how the victims later organized, the reactions of the Cardinal and the hierarchy to unfolding events -- this fillm won for its good intentions, period. It is basically an unimaginative, tedious, predictable, and cliched work.