Damn, definitely one of Fincher's best. It would fall apart without the right actors, and Rosamund Pike just blows it out of the water. Neil Patrick Harris is the only one I didn't like, he felt like he was kind of overselling it. It has a plastic, deodorant ad aesthetic that suits the material perfectly. Aw, it's kind of adorable too.
Like many Gilliam films, the details are divine but the whole is somewhat lacking. This time it feels like the first two episodes of a TV show about Munchausen, which would have to take us on many more adventures to do justice to the title. But in the moment it's often magical.
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