I'm halfway through. Reese is joyless. Robert is unnatural. How can basic social cues be so unnatural for him? Or if so, why was he ever cast as anything but Batman and Edward? Waltz, as usual, is a quivering superposition of very pleasant and very unpleasant. August was moody in the book, but you typically knew in a moment which mood he was in. Waltz is subtler. You can't tell if his smile is glad or mad, or if it's even a smile.
This movie is so typical, but I'd say it does it well, if not for Robert and Reese's fierce anti-chemistry.
Reese doesn't deliver any real personality, but to be fair, neither does the character in the book. I found it interesting a female author robbed her main female character of all character besides crying frequently.
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