State of Play

Before I rent any movie I always look at a couple web pages to try to determine if it's worth my time.  I look at the Rotten Tomatoes web page and the IDB movie database.  I usually pay a lot of attention to the ID IDB movie database as I think it's fairly accurate, with my taste in movies.  But, the rotten tomato website is another story, if it is rated high on this web page it's almost a guarantee that it stinks as far as I'm concerned.  So what I'm looking for from the Rotten Tomato site is for a low number.  Well, it was wrong this time because it gave this movie a 84% rating with which would normally tell me, don't watch it.  But,  I watched it anyway and I thought it was worth the worth viewing.

 

I will tell you that this movie is a bit complicated and you need to pay attention while you're watching it.  I had some distractions going while watching the beginning of this movie and it started bad as far as I was concerned.  Later on I was paying more attention to it and I thought it was pretty good and the ending had a nice twist to it.  I always like movies and television programs that do things that I don't expect or have a plot that I never dreamt of before.  Can't say that about this movie but it wasn't bad.