It's better to do just one thing perfect than a lot but so-so
There's something in The place beyond the pines that makes feel the spectator just fine when they leave the theatre. Nobody can say that it's a bad movie, but, of course it isn't an amazing movie who you'll remember in the future. It's obvios that it's not a casting failure. Ryan Gosling , Bradley Cooper and the rest of the cast are correct. They don't do the interpretation of their lifes but at least sometime you can feel what their characters are passing through. We can say the same of the direction work. The action scenes are well filmed, they don't over dramatized the drama parts most of the times, Derek Cianfrance don't use too much the music to get the spectator involved in the story in an easy way. The story it isn't original, that's true, not complex, not too easy, but nothing new and kind of lost. That's the weakest point. You can say that The place beyond the pines tells the story of two families. One about focus on ...