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Sorkin’s writing was never in question. It is always top tier. The real question posed in The Trial of the Chicago 7 is can he direct—can he use that flowery rhetoric to its fullest potential and create true dramatic heft? On that question, the jury is still out.
The soulless affair is all told in about the most cookie cutter way imaginable. There is no vision here—only the bastardized crumbs of King’s legendary frights.
The twists are stupid, the jokes don’t land and the love story isn’t one worth rooting for. A lot of talent was wasted on this laughably bad story and we are all worse for having seen it. But hopefully this review can save you from the regret of giving it a try.
While the film does interesting things with its premise, what I find most compelling is the ways our protagonists have responded to the world they have been given.
It is weighed down by just enough blah, blah science this, blah, blah science that it never quite gets off the ground.
I didn't hate this movie; I just hated the experience of watching it.
The immense talents of Sir Anthony Hopkins, Stanley Tucci, John Goodman and several other gifted actors are completely wasted in two and a half hours of some of the ugliest CGI and cartoonishly bad dialogue imaginable.
Viola, Denzel, August Wilson. Sometimes a film's pedigree is so strong there is no way to fail.
The final product here could certainly be divisive. Like the underlying events of the film, nothing is one thing. But it would be hard to argue there isn't much here.
