True Story

2015 • 99 minute

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James Franco and Jonah Hill star in this taut thriller from writer-director Rupert Goold, based on Michael Finkel’s chilling, real-life story. After a disgraced New York Times journalist (Hill) learns that Christian Longo, a man accused of murdering his family, claims to be him, he is intrigued and begins meeting with Longo. But as time goes on, Finkel realizes how dangerous Longo really is.

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From the get go, Jonah Hill is both hard to watch and listen to in this role. He's already saddled with a grating voice that sounds more female than male - which in itself is unpleasant in it's airy, nasal tone. But combined with his own apparent physical discomfort with his increasingly massive girth, he delivers a constrained and rigid performance physically. Clearly uncomfortable in his own skin, he relays the same to the viewer with a complete disconnect between intent and delivery, physically.

Wow.....never thought how great the movie would be but they had good actors playing. Im a fan of Seth Green James Franco Johan Hill. They know how to make someone laugh and how to kinda take things seriously.

I wanted to connect with the story. I waited for it to become something good. Even good, it would have been enough to overlook its shortcomings. It ended up feeling like fragments of other films, like I was constantly expecting something other than what I was watching, and it wasn't really clear until the end that this film just isn't much at all.