How do you make such a terrible movie with so many incredible actors? The dialogue is painfully awkward, disjointed, artificial, flat, and pretentious. Christian Bale is like a Billy Crystal caricature half the time. Every scene feels forced and simultaneously like an after thought. I kept watching thinking and hoping it had to get better. It did not. I felt like I was watching a high school theater class do improv while drunk and/or stoned, thinking they were terribly clever and deep but actually just banal and superficial. This movie was truly painful to watch. Then in the last 5 minutes someone realized that they'd better literally spell out the intended message for the masses via narration since the movie itself couldn't carry it. How, how could this movie possibly be THIS BAD?? It had so much potential with it's talent pool, and apparently it was at least partly loosely based on an actual event. But by the end of this belabored and misdirected monstrosity you won't even care.