CheeryToes

Believe all the reviews. It's really really awful. I am sad to say I wasted four hours of my life... the melodrama, the bad one dimensional acting...and the end...oh god ...the end... No, don't waste your time. It's so awful that I can't even come up with 5 lines of text to trash it. It was inconsistent, hard to follow, over the top melodramatic and had a ridiculous ending. There, done - don't waste your time.

David Oyelowo is electrifying. From the moment the story opens to the inevitable climax you are spellbound. You can't take your eyes off him as his story, his pain, his need spills out all over the screen. The pain is palpable, but not overwhelming or trite. Every moment feels real, there's not one false step. The fact that is basically one large long soliloquy doesn't keep it from being compelling to watch, if nothing else, it compels the fascination.

Peter Snowden is a broken man and his brokenness is palpable, it's a living thing that consumes him and drives his every decision. When the movie ended I said, "Wow, wow" I knew I'd watched something special.

I highly recommend it.