Review of Worth (2021) by Syhuff — 07 Sep 2021

Good-1) Michael Keaton-good accent, good character work all around. Love the scene where the camera focuses on his face for about 2 minutes, and he pretty subtly gives you the measure of all his thoughts from a series of uncomfortable micro expressions.

2) Script-it must have been really hard to construct a compelling narrative from what seems like just a bunch of bureaucratic decision making. I’m guessing they made a lot of stuff up in terms of interactions between the lawyers and the survivors, but they did a good job of it. Some cliche driven scenes, but could be worse.

3) Michael Keaton and Stanley Tucci- these guys are so good together and at their respective character types that, just as in “Spotlight”, they should become the Crosby and Hope of procedural investigation films.

4) The scene where they show 9/11 happening from the perspective of Feinberg’s (Keaton) morning commute. Bad-1) So I’m sure the team working on the compensation fund was probably huge, with too many characters to develop if you want a cohesive story. And maybe the group was also originally super white,super male and super old. I don’t know. But when adapting true life material, if you’re going to add second tier characters that have to carry the burden of all your inclusion, please give them something to **** do and say. And if the original team was not super male white and old there’s even less excuse.

2) Feinberg’s wife was so great in her first scene, and then by mid way through the movie she doesn’t even get to sit next to him at the opera.

3) More Stanley Tucci please. Always more Stanley Tucci.