Ryan Gosling has a rich real estate owning dad but doesn't want to be a rich real estate owning dads son, he wants to be a health food shop owner. He meets Kirsten Dunst and they become all loved up and wotnot and try to live the health food life together. Daddy then rocks up again and forces Ryan to become part of the business. Once home and in the biz Ryan starts to become a bit of a douchebag to Kirsten. Then weird stuff keeps happening and people go missing and Ryan is the main suspect. Did he do it? Well that would be telling now wouldn't it.
I'm a big Gosling fan as he has been in some cracking films. The best of which are Drive and Crazy, Stupid Love. Unfortunately this isn't up there with the best but is still a pretty good film. The story is true. The main character did indeed exist, did become a douche and did do things to his wife and other people, allegedly. Herein lies one of the problems of the film. The blurb at the end explaining the real life version of events states that the true course of events never came out whereas the film seems to have its own opinions on what happened. This does not mean the way they take it is bad but it doesn't exactly sit on the fence. This takes away some of the did he, didn't he mechanic which in my opinion would have made the film stronger. Aside from that the performances are strong from all concerned and the story does work. I enjoyed it but not the best film in the world.
Verdict: 3.5/5
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