I have found that I cannot enjoy a movie, no matter how well made, if the protagonist is not someone for whom I root. For instance, people & critics were wild about Pulp Fiction, yet I detested it because I wanted everyone in it to die in pain. I had to leave early. The film was lauded so much, I watched it on TV because a wondered if I missed something. I hated the experience just as much again.
Joaquin Phoenix is a hugely talented actor - he should have won an Oscar for best supporting actor in Gladiator - but I will pass on this one. His interviews describing how the roll drove him crazier than he usually is did not incite me to want to see it. They definitely got the right guy to play the part, but putting a very troubled actor in that roll and him being a method actor to boot is a recipe for producer abuse.
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution