![]() ![]() ![]() Mr Affleck's performances lack depth - compare and contrast those of this amazing brother Casey. And there is a very large dose of it here. Mr Affleck's persona is always of a handsome man who knows he's handsome, and who is very pleased with himself about it. Or put it in its current form on Netflix as a two-part drama. The producer and/or the director needed to tell the writer to put it through another draft. I read that an entire strand of the book was removed for the purposes of the film, but this was not enough. But overall, there is a sense of the director being in thrall to the screenplay. Within scenes there's a reassuring sense of control of pace. As a director of actors Mr Affleck is strong: he elicits particularly striking work from Chris Messina, Elle Fanning, Remo Girone and Sienna Miller. There are excellent action sequences, such as an exciting car-chase and a final shoot-out. Also, it feels as though the adaptation from Dennis Lehane's novel has not sufficiently transformed what was on the page into cinematic story-telling. There's an expert team on both sides of the camera. ![]() Let's look at those contributions one by one. Producer, director, writer and lead actor: Ben Affleck. ![]()
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