Tuesday 6 September 2016

Fizzling finales

Dark Places (2015)

Directed by Giles Paquet-Brenner this film based on the novel of the same name stars Charlize Theron, Christina Hendricks, Nicholas Hoult and Chloe Grace Mortez. Thirty years after a surviving the massacre of her family and testifying that her brother was the killer a woman re-examines her past.

Starting off slowly this film gradually becomes an interesting exploration of lies and poverty right up to the point that it is ruined by a weak ending. I feel like both this film and Gone Girl (2014), which is also adapted from a novel by the same author, have problems with their ending but this film does not have Fincher to guide it. You can certainly pick some interesting things out of this film it is just a shame about how it ends given how good the cast is.


3/5

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