Such a frustrating disappointment

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Philosophy professor Evan Birch (Guy Pearce) is married to Ellen (Minnie Driver) with young children. He views truth as relative. His student Anna (Alexandra Shipp) insists on talking about last semester. When high school cheerleader Joyce Bonner (Odeya Rush) goes missing, police detective Malloy (Pierce Brosnan) investigates and questions Evan after evidence surfaces of a connection.Evan is an annoying protagonist. He's impossible to root for and early on, I decided not to root for him. He keeps talking to the police. He can't help but look guilty all the time. There is a way to make the truth a better battleground. It needs some more twists and turns. At the end of the day, his personal demons are compelling enough and the reveals are interesting enough. There are possible dramatic avenues that are left untraveled. It seems like a project with depth but not all of it translated from the book onto the screen.

The film starts off good, keeps you guessing for awhile, but then loses its way. The ending seemed a bit mashed. As others have said, it's not great but it's not bad. Average is what it is. 5/10

In countless stories, villains hide their crimes. In countless others, innocents are framed. But is there a third possibility? Once your life has come unglued from truth, can you begin to doubt your own memories? What is fantasy? What is alibi? What is genuine recollection? This possibility is intriguingly explored in the novel, The Spinning Man by George Harrar, and in this movie. Let this film get under your skin, and you may begin to second-guess your own inner life. Those fantasies-they were just fantasies, weren't they?

I'll watch Pierce and Guy in anything. The fact they are in this movie together was a no-brainer. If you're looking for explosions, car chases and fights, this movie isn't for you. If you want a film that explores what we can know and how frail individuals and relationships can be, this is a great example. The action in a movie like this is found in the multi-faceted micro-expressions on the actors faces. Interpreting them is what makes Spinning Man so compelling. This is how movies are supposed to be made and how we can participate most as an audience.The acting is superb and the director brilliance was knowing to just get out of the way. Jaimie Kennedy was unrecognizable and good in his role. And though his character was run of the mill, Clark Gregg hit it out of the park. It was nice to see a yet another movie "about something". See it when you are in the mood for that.The brilliance of this film lies in the subtle and small.