I remember seeing the trailer for this a while ago but the details did not quite stick with me which I think was a blessing. If you go into this movie not knowing all the details then the first act ifs going to get you to let your guard down.
Hugh Jackman’s Frank Tassone is set up as a sympathetic character in the first act but all the while you are waiting for the other shoe to drop and when it does the movie doubles down on putting Frank in doubt as the one doing wrong vs the one being wronged. It’s a great setup that makes the rest of the film sing.
Allison Janney is just perfect and the relationship they establish between her and Frank at the beginning is crucial context for who Frank turns out to be.
The best part of this movie to me though was at the beginning when Geraldine Viswanathan’s Rachel was in the office interviewing Frank for her puff piece on the skywalk. His hubris at that moment was the catalyst for his demise. I wish someone would make a list of movies where the seemingly innocent action of one character is the spark that lights the fuse that eventually blows everyone’s world to hell. This movie has to be on that list.
