I'm not going to pull apart the acting of the three stars of this film. I think, given the dire construction of flawed contrived conversation they did alright. The film itself however was terrible. I think Mr Eastwood was quite keen to jump on the story of this, then when the task came to it of creating a background and a whole film of this event, the realisation that there isn't a film that can be made, the writers padded this event into a montage of wasted conversation. The childhood development part was fine, the military training was fine, all that was left was the incident, and about an hour to turn this into feature length, so we had a monotonous hour of three guys walking around the sights of Italy, going into bars and taking selfies that did nothing to develop the characters, plot or entertainment.
The conversations were dire, falsified and barely could flow from the lips of the most professional of actors, let alone three guys in their first attempt...I actually think they did very well, sometimes a worksman can blame his tools.
If anyone to blame it's Eastwood, and the dialogue writers.
Review of The 15:17 to Paris
