Director: Guillermo del Toro. Cast: Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Mary Steenburgen, David Strathairn, Tim Blake Nelson. 150 min. Rated R. Crime/Drama.
- Guillermo del Toro is a great director, and he always tells wonderful stories of the macabre, but I've never had a take-home message from his movies. Bradley Cooper in an Indiana Jones suit in the 1920s learns to become a psychic (a.k.a., con man), and hooks up with a psychiatrist to pull through a major con, connecting a prominent figure to the ghost of his wife. And everything is so well-crafted with a captivating cast of actors and beautifully shot in dazzling backdrops (deservedly nominated for Oscars in cinematography, production design and costume design), but at the end of the day ... it's just a good story. No take-home message.
MoGo's rating: 6/10
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