The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

ALERT ALERT ! THIS IS A BORING AWFUL MESS. It bears no resemblance to the Amanda Knox story. It is soooo bad that I have been avoiding Daniel Bruhl movies...did he even read the script before signing up for this? Kate Beckinsale, a very fine actress, must feel ashamed for participating. Do yourself a favor. Count your ceiling tiles, watch some paint dry, view a yacht race from afar, or rearrange your sock drawer. ANY IF THESE ARE MORE EXCITING THAN THIS MOVIE!!

This review contains spoilers, well, sort of.. Right from the beginning we get a lot of clues, like Simone tells Thomas, 'You can't tell the truth, unless you make it a fiction', but Thomas doesn't seem to be able to separate truth from fiction completely. And a movie about a movie is a sure sign of metaphor, therefore plot events and timeline shouldn't be taken literally, especially in a dream about someone else's dreamwork. The more we learn about Thomas, the more we realize that he, rather unwittingly, is making a movie about his estranged daughter. He also believes that there is no such a thing as real truth of justice (only interpretation of it). While his antagonist Edoardo thinks that art has to provide answers to the questions that life asks; there is the truth and there is the rest. There many symbols to decipher, for instance, pairs and juxtapositions: Jessica and Elizabeth, Simone and Melanie, Joseph and Cedric, Thomas and Edoardo; Dante's La Vita Nuova vs. Divine Comedy; Thomas' daughter Bea and Dante's Beatrice; mountains vs. sea, apartments vs. hotels, Tuscany vs. Ravenna, etc. There is much more to the film than just a story of an internationally acclaimed director spiraling down the road of loneliness, gloom and despair as the result of his failure to cope with personal and creative life issues. Also, there is a heavy hint that the murder of Jessica was either ritualistic or conspiratorial, involving many participants, and we'll never be able to learn the true motives or reconstruct the chain of events that led to it, let alone see justice administered. So, what's the point then? And here it is in a nutshell: reality is what we make by constantly construing actual and imaginative objects and meanings, – notions that morph into one another. And Thomas chooses to see the bright side of things - light, as opposed to darkness, love, as opposed to hate, life, as opposed to death, simple, as opposed to complicated..

I never write reviews, but actually signed on to this site to post a review after watching this movie. I feel like I just wasted two hours of my life. It takes a lot for me to not like a movie... I can usually find something to like....but not with this movie. I thought this movie would be about the story of the murder. It's not. It's really a movie about the writer's experiences while researching this murder. The whole movie is a bumbling mess, focused more on the writer's life, than on the actual murder case. It should not be advertised as being about the murder. It's really like this writer used this story as a platform to write a story about his own life, which by the way, is not interesting enough to carry a movie. To make it even worse, the very few moments they recreate the trial....it's all spoken in Italian with no translation.

The movie failed utterly because it had nothing to do with either the events of the crime nor with the trial involving Amanda Kercher and Meredith Knox so viewers who are expecting any enlightenment about these events (and who wasn't) are left short-changed from the start. The characters are clumsy in their purpose to display some sort of point or message for the film so we are let down even more.I would blame this more on the script and directing than the actors but if the actors did a good job then it did not show in the way this story was presented.If I had to guess then I would say that it tried to tell us that the truth of the story was not the thing that people should be focused on but that a beautiful young girl who was loved and had a happy life was lost. Try watching it with this concept in mind and it makes all the poorly presented scenes a little more tolerable.I wonder if Thomas' pursuit of the truth to the murder (as he gets more directly involved with the solution to the case by trying to locate the knives) is what inspires the drug use and silly CGI scenes as a reflection that he was falling into the same unimportant issues that everyone else is. I think his longing for his daughter also parallels the loss that the Kercher family was feeling. Thomas' strife with other journalists may also be a sign that he did not like the opinions of other writers because they were focused on the case and the girl on trial but not on the girl who died ("Strange... when I think of Face of an Angel I always think of Elizabeth. But you all mean Jessica." - Thomas)After writing this review I watched a Q&A by Mark Salisbury with Michael Winterbottom (director) and Paul Viragh (writer) and right off the bat they confirmed what I struggled to believe was the message of the film. I'm sorry that they missed the mark so egregiously and that they used such a high-profile trial in a way that fails its potential as a who-dun-it.