In the run-up to last year's Academy Awards, several films were on the best picture nomination list that were not available for (legitimate) home screenings. So we didn't get to see them at our weekly community movie nights (Three cheers for co-housing)
Although Foxcatcher was not in the best picture nominees, it was in 5 other categories, and I had heard many good things about it.
What it is, IMHO, is a plodding, uninteresting drama about a wrestler, his brother, and a wanna-be wrestler millionaire who signs the cheques for the us Wrestling Team to get to Seoul in 1988. But John DuPont, is just pretending he's a coach and mentor, when he's nothing more than a sugar-daddy who's always gotten what he ever wanted because it could be bought.
It's dull, from the dialogue, to the wrestling, to the cinematography. Based on actual events and people, it's also supposed to be a "murder mystery". However, this story is a murder mysteries as firecracker is to a howitzer.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is my simile of the day.
Recommend? No.
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