MISCONDUCT

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REVIEWED

This movie is a directorial debut of a guy (with Japanese descendants?) living in the USA having written such films like Grudge (1&2) among others. What a lucky guy as he got this film for only $11mil budget and yet with familiar faces big and small. Big ones are Hopkins and Pacino. Small ones are Dushamel, Ackerman, Stiles, Alice Eve & Byung Hun Lee (the bad guy of GI Joe and recently Terminator Genisys)

On the production side, the movie is accompanied with classic Hitchcock's music which sometimes work but sometimes it felt like you are watching an old film. Then there is this creative but sometimes weird camera works where it just stayed on one actor to whom he or she is talking is immaterial but you can hear their voices in the background. Sometimes it works but doing this too long overkill the effect.

The main character is Josh D. Hopkins and Pacino played sidelines and you are satisfied with their presence. But not JD. One thing for sure, he looks even younger than the film before this. The movie could do better by casting a more dramatic actor. Perhaps due to the 2 giant actors by his side, JD seem to be inadequate. 

The movie is not told convincingly enough. What happen to Arthur (AH) after Ben (JD) saw him ? What evidence Ben has on Abrams (AP) at the restaurant that the police apprehend Abrams and not Ben even as he was covered in blood and he was after all being manhunted ? What is so wrong with Abrams that he did what he did after that ? What is the Accountant (BHL) (thats what they call him in IMDB) related to all this? If he was an accountant how come he has this set of special skills and conscious (or non of it) to carry them out.

There's a "Presumed Innocent" stuff in this one too which is unnecessary but maybe had to be done to tie up the loose ends. Or maybe to pass the message that its OK to get away with small things as there are bigger things that got caught.

I was expecting this movie to be above exception.. but it did not. Not too bad but just wasted the potential it could become especially with the many Stars participating. 7.5 current IMDB ratings! OVERATTED !