Rock Paper Scissors
Genre: Thriller/Suspense
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Writers: Rene Menzie & Harmony Winters
Based on the novel by Alice Feeney
Cast: Charlie Cox, Alison Brie, Emmy Rossum, Anthony Hopkins, Annabelle Wallis, Jon Tenney
Budget: $28,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $20,480,112
Foreign Box Office: $18,439,503
Total Profit: -$19,045,008
Reaction: It probably shouldn't be any surprise at this point when a novel adaptation fails to make a profit at the box office. Since the start of Season 25, there have been 21 novel adaptations released, but only 6 have made a profit. With this one specifically, Charlie Cox and Alison Brie did not bring a ton of star power to the film, and word of mouth couldn't propel it.
"Rock Paper Scissors is filled with so many (mostly false) narrative threads (which only sometimes actually matter), that by the time the truth is revealed in the end, I just didn't have enough energy to be surprised. I suppose the end was a surprise, but only because it didn't really make much sense. Some scenes slow things down and don't have much meaning other than to mislead the audience, but the cast lacks the charisma and chemistry to make up for rotten plotting." - Woodrow Nelson, Baxter Bulletin
"Even though I really liked the storytelling through the letters the movie drags a bit after a while. The viewer gets rewarded with a good ending, although there are a bit too many twists and turns for my taste. Sadly some things didn't make any sense to me, for example the protagonist inability to recognize faces shouldn't led to him not recognizing any people at all." - Clark Chase, Chicago Sun-Times
"This baffling narrative resembles my first experience watching The Room on Adult Swim. I don't fully understand it. It's frustrating that the story could have worked. I don't blame the director, cast, or source material since, with the well-crafted original context, this could have been easily avoided." - Gordon Sheffield, London Times
Rated R for violence, language and sexual content
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