What you get: very good acting performances all the way around. Fassbender and Swinton easily the best.
Despite reviews alluding to a deeper character film exploring sanity (or lack thereof), it plays as a very detailed revenge film. As such, it does well, if a bit slow especially in the beginning. And in spite of his frequent narrative detailing his code, the film presents him breaking his code over and over, with predictably less than great results.
He also professes to not give a darn (not the word he used) about anything and claims to eschew empathy. And yet, we see him frequently altering his actions to allow for sympathetic moves.
The ending felt anti climactic. Almost as though to put a bow on it. He's supposed to be unchanged; but through viewing the movie we know better.
Despite reviews alluding to a deeper character film exploring sanity (or lack thereof), it plays as a very detailed revenge film. As such, it does well, if a bit slow especially in the beginning. And in spite of his frequent narrative detailing his code, the film presents him breaking his code over and over, with predictably less than great results.
He also professes to not give a darn (not the word he used) about anything and claims to eschew empathy. And yet, we see him frequently altering his actions to allow for sympathetic moves.
The ending felt anti climactic. Almost as though to put a bow on it. He's supposed to be unchanged; but through viewing the movie we know better.