There’s a structural choice at the center of Human Capital that either sabotages a good movie or elevates a bad one to the level of just being a mixed bag.
I can’t quite decide which it is. Early on, there’s some interesting potential here, before giving way to a lot of mediocrity, before hinting at something better towards the end.
Again, it’s that choice of structure, which we’ll get into below, that makes for at least some degree of a disconnect. At the end of the day, a really interesting cast can only do so much here.
Hitting VOD tomorrow, it can’t quite get over the hump. The film is an ensemble drama, or really a melodrama, about a number of bad choices over a short frame of time.
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