Michael's Movie Grade: A-
Review: Extremely unique and exciting film that never lets go of its audience's attention.
This movie never lets you know exactly how you are supposed to feel about what you are watching. This movie could easily be described as a dark comedy or as a tragedy, and neither is exactly wrong. There are many times watching this movie when I was unsure whether I was supposed to laugh or feel disturbed by what I was watching. This is clearly intentional on the filmmaker's part, as this is exactly what pulled me further into this movie. I was fascinated by everything I saw and never looked away from the screen. Helping this fascination was how director Craig Gillespie and writer Steven Rodgers put this film together. There is a mixture of regular narrative storytelling and acted interview segments. This not only helps tell the story but gives the movie a completely unique feeling as well as making the film just more fun to watch. We are also allowed to see incidents from various people's points of view, making us never sure whether we are supposed to believe and what we shouldn't. Since we are deciding what we believe, we are therefore pulled further into what is on screen.
Margot Robbie's performance in this movie is incredible. She always feels completely real and honest. Still she never goes for out and out sympathy or unlikableness. We are instead made to decide how we are supposed to react to what we are seeing. Her performance reflects this perfectly because it is so complex.
This movie is very unique and thought provoking as well as being just fast paced fun entertainment.
-Michael J. Ruhland
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