I was looking forward to this highly anticipated movie but was disappointed. It was slow-paced and dare I say boring. The characters, especially John DuPont and Mark Schultz, go through extreme transformations; however the movie fails to depict the process of transformation, only showing the before and after with very little transform-ing. We never get inside the heads of these disturbed characters. This doesn't make the movie any more difficult to follow, but it certainly makes for some sudden transitions coupled with some awkwardly fast cutaways.
That being said, all three leading men give excellent, gritty, dark and disturbing performances. Steve Carrell is unrecognizable in his breakout dramatic role behind loads of makeup. Mark Ruffalo is perhaps even better than Carrell. Some of the best scenes are when Ruffalo as David Schultz coaches his younger brother. It is in these scenes, such as the silent sparring one, in which we see their relationship in its rawest form.
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