Despite some of my favorite actors today I have to say I was hugely disappointed. Shannon pulls off decent performances but much of the dialogue comes off wooden and unnatural. The story is riddled with loose ends; the fiction within a fiction lessens impact and believability. The characters are cliché the pacing horrible the score was at times jarring and the predictable ending is weakly executed. Laura Lindy has a wonderful and prophetic cameo however this film was doomed from conception. If you like Amy Adams as do I then see Arrival instead?
Nocturnal Animals revolves around a miserable artist in a loveless marriage who one day receives an early copy of her ex-husband’s new novel; part of the movie is about her life and past the rest is the events that take place in the book. The problem with this movie is that half of the movie is exciting the other half is completely uninteresting. The story of the book is interesting and often nail-biting but outside of the book, I did not care what happened in the real world. Nocturnal Animal is a good movie but uninteresting for nearly half of its run time.
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