You know the saying, ‘nails on a blackboard’? While it was interesting seeing Steve Carell in a serious role (‘creepy’ is a better way to describe it), this movie was boring, with oddly one-dimensional characters. The plodding storyline is based on the true tale of billionaire blueblood John DuPont’s effort in the ’80s to designate his Foxcatcher estate in Pennsylvania as the official Olympic training ground for wrestling. Sounds random, but describing it as a way to get back at Mommy Dearest (who finds wrestling “a low sport”) doesn’t begin to scratch the surface of psychosis in DuPont (played by Carell). And star wrestler Mark Shultz Channing Tatum) is equally one-dimensional. Instead of focusing on these characters, the movie dances around too many elements—scarred men, what the Olympic process does to athletes—and never deals with any satisfactorily.
Should You See It? No. It’s boring.
Viewed at Landmark Theatres Plaza Frontenac