Fiction is ultimately describing a story lacking any purpose and that it is quite long ...
If I evaluate the film in two halves, the first half is quite fluent, high potential, while the second half of the semantic repetition falls and passes with character development.
But I have to admit that cinematography is a very powerful film as a productivity. It made me watch the film in a pleasant way until the last quarter.
Finally, I don't think Adrien Brody performs a different and extraordinary performance.