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Acting

 Clearly all the players were fine. Every one came off believable enough.

Character Development

The main character is the only one that exhibits any growth.

Plot

 This is where the film falls apart.

Camera work & editing

 Nice. There are several wonderful long shots that really shine.

Overview

An effort was made here and there that just did not pay off. When the movie starts there is a scene that is taken from the end of the film to create a surprise of events. When this happen the film doesn’t trust the audience to figure out what is happening. Backtracking events and then slowly spoon feeds the audience step by step what is plainly obvious.

But the real problem is the execution. It was running at snail speed. Boredom quickly set in and never really recovered.

Then there were incidences that stretch a healthy suspension of disbelief to a breaking point. One occurrence is when the protagonist hides a small fortune of money in an insecure place in his dorm room. A supposed genius would not hide over three hundred thousand dollar is such a manner. I am curious to what amount would he decide to open a bank account.