https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-child-44-starring-tom-hardy-noomi-rapace-gary-oldman-and-joel-kinnaman-20150416/ Mon, 23 May 2016 03:41:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-child-44-starring-tom-hardy-noomi-rapace-gary-oldman-and-joel-kinnaman-20150416/#comment-132944 Mon, 23 May 2016 03:41:18 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/review-child-44-starring-tom-hardy-noomi-rapace-gary-oldman-and-joel-kinnaman-265017/#comment-132944 Having read the novel and then seen the film today I can honestly say the film was a let down. It\’s not a bad film and I did enjoy it but it didn\’t portray the tensions, emotions and background that made this a best selling novel. There were bits of the story missed out and I felt it was all a bit rushed to cram it in to the two hours. It could have been so much more

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-child-44-starring-tom-hardy-noomi-rapace-gary-oldman-and-joel-kinnaman-20150416/#comment-132945 Mon, 23 May 2016 03:41:18 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/review-child-44-starring-tom-hardy-noomi-rapace-gary-oldman-and-joel-kinnaman-265017/#comment-132945 Having read the source novel, I can tell you that the identity of the killer is a surprise twist that makes sense of the entire narrative. It\’s a revelation that ties the whole story together. And having read Price\’s early draft, I can also tell you that it was (at least at one point) the same as in the novel. I can see why they\’d ultimately trim it, in that it requires yet another sub-plot in a story that is (quite novelistically, and uncinematically, as you point out) already full of them – but THAT one? The story\’s a whodunit. Why would you trim out THAT one? Very confusing.

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