Positives: I loved the casting. Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert DeNiro, and Lily Gladstone did a fantastic job in this film.
Covers the book well, touching on most of the major highlights of it.
Negatives: I read the book and that was 1000% more intense, paced well, and left you hanging on every word. The movie revealed everything to us in chronological order in a very slow fashion, thereby eliminating all suspense and mystery.
The movie was 1.5 hours too long. Martin could have cut down the movie and made it more concise by highlighting the greed of white man when they struck oil, how many of those men swindled Osage out of their fortunes, covered more of the introduction of J. Edgar Hoover and the birth of the FBI (all of his trials and tribulations, including mistakes made during this investigation), included some small but crucial moments like mentioning that Ernest was Mollie's guardian, bring up that Lizzie's death was suspected posioning, reduced some of the cinematic shots that Martin seems fixated on (you'll know when you see them), and I wish he introduced this movie from the perspective of the FBI.
Covers the book well, touching on most of the major highlights of it.
Negatives: I read the book and that was 1000% more intense, paced well, and left you hanging on every word. The movie revealed everything to us in chronological order in a very slow fashion, thereby eliminating all suspense and mystery.
The movie was 1.5 hours too long. Martin could have cut down the movie and made it more concise by highlighting the greed of white man when they struck oil, how many of those men swindled Osage out of their fortunes, covered more of the introduction of J. Edgar Hoover and the birth of the FBI (all of his trials and tribulations, including mistakes made during this investigation), included some small but crucial moments like mentioning that Ernest was Mollie's guardian, bring up that Lizzie's death was suspected posioning, reduced some of the cinematic shots that Martin seems fixated on (you'll know when you see them), and I wish he introduced this movie from the perspective of the FBI.