Movie Review: The Foxcatcher

 

The Foxcatcher

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What can you say about a movie as empty as my bank account? Well I think a lot, and you guess right, all bad :P

I didn’t knew squat about this movie to be honest when my brother mention it I call it something like “dog killer” or “dogcatcher” that thinking about it dog catcher could have been the story of a dog who learns to be baseball catcher and works its way up until it plays with the Yankees but I’m going on a complete different track. What I wanted to say was that I started to watch this movie almost without preconceptions of it, why almost? Well my brother put me the trailer so I had a notion of what was going to happen, and so we watched.

This movie follows the trend of making a long movie when they had the script of a short film, you can cut the first 20 minutes of the film and you get the same movie, also lots of scenes can be cut to half their length and the viewer will only notice that they are not falling sleep during the movie, because at least is going to end soon.

There are 3 important lead characters in the story, yes you guessed right the three guys in the poster, but from the 3 you can’t get enough for a story? I mean we don’t see the struggle to rise from Tatum and Ruffalo, we don’t follow Steve Carrell to sink into his character and learn his virtues and flaws, well what I say is that we don’t see what makes tick any of this characters, they are there in the middle of their lives, and they share time so nobody feels like a protagonist, there are no actual problems, and most of the movie are just pointless scenes where you see wrestling practices or just the characters looking at the horizon.

The performance of everyone is horrible; Steve Carrel just acts like he has a cold and can’t breathe by his nose, and walks like he really needs to go to the toilet, Channing Tatum is always pushing his jaw forward and with his head down, I don’t know if that guy has ever seen a wrestler or any guy how fights in sports they are always standing up straight, and also walks like he just pissed his pants, Mark Ruffalo is the only one with some kind of human acting but that line of shaved forehead takes you out of his performances, I mean there are tons of people that are actually bald or balding that can do that movie.

As I said there is no story and by that reason you can’t care for what is going to happen to anyone, Mark Rufalo and Channing Tatum are won Olympic gold before the movie Steve Carrell was millionaire so you don’t care. To the people that say that there are stories there, well yes there is tons of material, but is material they didn’t used! I mean they used the life of a real guy, so there are things to work with and are easier because you don’t have to invent his psyche just trim the life story to leave only the good interesting parts.

They could make it about just one of the characters and explore there, I mean Channing Tatum looks like he has some sort of mental problem, or how he managed to get the Olympic gold medal Mark Ruffalo his struggles as a family man and how he managed to get a gold medal, Steve Carrell and his family relations, or why he wanted the wrestling team, or why he wanted to be a wrestler, The ranch “Foxcatcher” its story from the beginning to its end or at least the present time. But listen well none of this is even hinted on the movie, all of this isn’t there.

This movie has all the points of an indie which are: pretentious, pseudo artistic film, bad camera, long silent shots, characters with characteristic traits and no story.

Even the real guy hated this movie, and is a movie about his life so you can do the math.

So if you have to decide between watch this movie or Guardians of the Galaxy again, go watch the most moving scene of the year that is between a racoon and a tree.