Well that was disappointing. (Hey! That’s the theme of this post!!!)

Let’s just start ourselves off with…. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy!

To be fair: we had already seen Girl with the Dragon Tattoo earlier in the day (a 3 hour endeavor) and waited around for 3 hours after missing the 7 o’clock show. So we were not in the best of spirits coming in.

That said; this movie was slow. Made by Tomas Alfredson, (Let the Right One In) you could definitely feel his stamp on this film. It was slow and methodical; held together by potently gruesome images. However, there was not enough compelling build-up to the man behind the mystery. The film circulates around the retired Agent Smiley (Gary Oldman) trying to find the mole in the British secret service. The rest of the cast is rounded out by many other English superstars such as Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Toby Jones, Benedict Cumberbatch, and William Hurt. While it was well acted, all in all, we found it to lack any sense of tempo or rhythm. The climax never gave us any resolution because nothing seemed to build to it. Instead of dancing across the floor, it walked. Like Annabelle from Arrested Development. To us it was just Tinker Tailor Soldier Snooooore.

And now, we move on to one of our most anticipated films of the year: A Dangerous Method. From critically acclaimed, Canadian auteur, David Cronenberg; A Dangerous Method depicts the story between the strange relationship between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortenson) and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) at the birth of psychoanalysis.

That said: MAJOR disappointment. Unlike most of Cronenberg’s canon (Eastern Promises, A History of Violence, Shivers, and The Fly (remake)) A Dangerous Method lacked any sort of logical pacing or innovative writing. Most disappointing: there seemed to be a lack of subtext and complexity to the story he was telling. It was a very talky film; it obviously never paid attention in high school when they tell you to “show” not “tell”.  No scene was longer than 3 minutes, unless there was a cheesy, “reading this letter” voiceover, montage happening. It seemed so conventional, which is the last thing you want from a Cronenberg movie. Unlike the challenging narratives Cronenberg poses to his audience, this film falls into an attempt at a tragic love story between Jung and his mistress, Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightly). We consider this A Dangerous Disappointment.