An Acceptable Loss wants to be an important, timely movie talking about the horrors of war. What it ends up being is a boring and illogical mess of a movie. The story gets lost in subplots, bad acting and terrible pacing.
Libby (Sumpter) was a former high ranking member of a white house staff who was the face of a decision that killed many innocent people. She was also involved in falsifying evidence to justify it. Now she's been welcomed as a guest professor at a university, but may not be safe there.
There is a clear stalker story that gets unbelievably turned on his head. All the students and staff at the college are terrible actors (the less said about the roommate the better). The story of the white house staff is the stuff of much better conspiracy stories.
This says nothing of the crazy past/present pacing. 5 minutes in the now, just to 10 seconds of the past, jump back, link it to the white house days. It's just nuts. Not hard to follow, but just very busy.
In the end this movie comes nowhere near being what it wants to be. It should be avoided.
Libby (Sumpter) was a former high ranking member of a white house staff who was the face of a decision that killed many innocent people. She was also involved in falsifying evidence to justify it. Now she's been welcomed as a guest professor at a university, but may not be safe there.
There is a clear stalker story that gets unbelievably turned on his head. All the students and staff at the college are terrible actors (the less said about the roommate the better). The story of the white house staff is the stuff of much better conspiracy stories.
This says nothing of the crazy past/present pacing. 5 minutes in the now, just to 10 seconds of the past, jump back, link it to the white house days. It's just nuts. Not hard to follow, but just very busy.
In the end this movie comes nowhere near being what it wants to be. It should be avoided.