For storytelling purposes, it's always hard when you don't have a villain personified. Films like that always seem a step slow and in worst cases, absolutely boring. So you have to give kudos to Soderbergh for making a film that moves forward. For making a thriller that really contains zero thrills. For creating a horror film without any bloody scenes.
It's a first-rate film. But is it enjoyable? Is it entertaining? I'd have to say no. It's detached filmmaking. It's a clinical film. It's a documentary. It's cold and cynical. It's almost as if Soderbergh doesn't care about a shared human experience - his film is more of an outsider's heartless point-of-view because that outsider feels the human experience has become heartless. The movie is remote and distant. The emotions needed to reach a wide-audience are nowhere to be found here.
Of course, a true artist doesn't care about that and Soderbergh is definitely an artist. At times, like this though, he seems to have trouble relating to his audience.
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