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I’m surprised by just how much people have ragged on this, because it’s just a bit mid, and people like mid stuff all the time. It gets somewhere close to being an interesting story about an abusive relationship, but it doesn’t give you enough to grab onto to make that truly satisfying, and it REALLY doesn’t grapple with the thorniness of its ending.
<PERSON> and <PERSON> (aka Mid<PERSON>) are really great and watching them is entertainment enough. <PERSON> is good… but after this and his Streetcar performance (and I guess God’s Creatures too) I’m getting the feeling that he struggles to find interesting notes to play in tough, masculine, frightening men in the way that he does with gentle and vulnerable ones. As in Streetcar, he plays the part convincingly but a bit obviously, and thus is overshadowed by the two more dynamic and imaginative performances around him. 698