POSITIVES:
1) Wahlberg gives a career best performance in this film 2) Every scene with Wahlberg, Goodman and Bacon is excellent 3) The bombing scene and the action scenes are shot very gritty and realistic which is what a film like this needs
NEGATIVES:
1) It essentially has one large negative and that is that it's trying so hard to be important and impactful that it makes the film worse. Firstly, it's too long. There's no need for it to take half an hour before the bomb actually goes off. There are also too many unimportant characters. This links into the length but also with the importance of the film. There is too much time spent needlessly away from Bacon, Goodman and Wahlberg to follow characters that aren't that important. It seems that the only reason they featured these pointless characters so prominently was so that they could show the footage of the real life people at the end. For example, getting JK Simmons to play a superintendent that is only semi-important in one scene just so the real life superintendent could come on at the end. This is present throughout the film and hurts it a lot. This film should only be 90 minutes long and the extra 45 minutes is pointless padding out of pointless characters
1) Wahlberg gives a career best performance in this film 2) Every scene with Wahlberg, Goodman and Bacon is excellent 3) The bombing scene and the action scenes are shot very gritty and realistic which is what a film like this needs
NEGATIVES:
1) It essentially has one large negative and that is that it's trying so hard to be important and impactful that it makes the film worse. Firstly, it's too long. There's no need for it to take half an hour before the bomb actually goes off. There are also too many unimportant characters. This links into the length but also with the importance of the film. There is too much time spent needlessly away from Bacon, Goodman and Wahlberg to follow characters that aren't that important. It seems that the only reason they featured these pointless characters so prominently was so that they could show the footage of the real life people at the end. For example, getting JK Simmons to play a superintendent that is only semi-important in one scene just so the real life superintendent could come on at the end. This is present throughout the film and hurts it a lot. This film should only be 90 minutes long and the extra 45 minutes is pointless padding out of pointless characters