Good aspects: quite exciting, good performances by Chastain and Costner (also Elba and Cera), well-told story about - among other things - how much men get away with, the one instance of physical violence is harrowing as it should be.
Bad aspects: extremely laboured textual explaining of Molly's whole psychology by and about her psychologist father (this threw me out of the film so badly that I thought it was more likely than not that the whole scene was a hallucination or dream of some kind, and I would've disliked it as too obvious even if it had been), somewhat of a deus ex machina / implausibly idealistic resolution in the final hearing (Sorkin's tendency towards over-simplification biting on both counts).
Sort of a neutral thing but more a bad thing than a good one: how similar it felt to Miss Sloane, even down to having Chastain as the lead, but not as good.
Overall: 6/10
Bad aspects: extremely laboured textual explaining of Molly's whole psychology by and about her psychologist father (this threw me out of the film so badly that I thought it was more likely than not that the whole scene was a hallucination or dream of some kind, and I would've disliked it as too obvious even if it had been), somewhat of a deus ex machina / implausibly idealistic resolution in the final hearing (Sorkin's tendency towards over-simplification biting on both counts).
Sort of a neutral thing but more a bad thing than a good one: how similar it felt to Miss Sloane, even down to having Chastain as the lead, but not as good.
Overall: 6/10
