I can't decide whether Rosamund Pike is really good in this movie or whether she's overacting to the high heavens.
At the end of the film, there's some brief footage of the real Marie Colvin, the war correspondent who Pike plays and who serves as the focus of this film about her career and eventual death in Syria. Whatever else might be said about Pike, she certainly looks and sounds like the real woman. As for her performance, Pike tears into the role as if she's daring someone to not nominate her for an Oscar. She goes at it hard in every single scene, playing Colvin as a high strung disaster, which maybe she was. The result is a pretty decent film, but one that's exhausting, since Pike is in virtually every scene and one can only take so much of someone else's mental disintegration. It's also an oddly detached film. I found myself unmoved by Colvin's story or her fate.
The film also stars Jamie Dornan, who manages to keep his clothes on and hides behind a big lumberjack beard to boot.
Grade: B+
At the end of the film, there's some brief footage of the real Marie Colvin, the war correspondent who Pike plays and who serves as the focus of this film about her career and eventual death in Syria. Whatever else might be said about Pike, she certainly looks and sounds like the real woman. As for her performance, Pike tears into the role as if she's daring someone to not nominate her for an Oscar. She goes at it hard in every single scene, playing Colvin as a high strung disaster, which maybe she was. The result is a pretty decent film, but one that's exhausting, since Pike is in virtually every scene and one can only take so much of someone else's mental disintegration. It's also an oddly detached film. I found myself unmoved by Colvin's story or her fate.
The film also stars Jamie Dornan, who manages to keep his clothes on and hides behind a big lumberjack beard to boot.
Grade: B+