By skyforbes It's been about 12 years and this movie has never really gotten much attention. It got decent audience scores with lackluster critic scores, but it had an all star cast all who I cant think of having put forth better roles. Having seen other small budget, small scope movies in the past (this movie having a budget of 22 million), I get where the critical critique is coming from, but I cant understand or agree with it. Taxi driver is a similary small and initially not well understood movie, but grew to become a classic and also depicts a mentally ill man who can't find a place in the world around him. Having grew up in a rust belt town which used to have massive factories for steelworking, manufacturing, and shipbuilding that have all since closed, the movie hits home and accurately at that. Growing up in a town like that around when the movie came out, I cant think of anything the movie did wrong. Casey Affleck's character is not rare, someone like Christian bales character who still believes the system works, isn't rare, and someone like Woody harrleson's character isn't unheard of. Despise being put together like a small budget film, I thought it was put together as well as anyone possibly could. I feel like it adequately conveys the depression millions of people feel, and the heart of some of the biggest issues the United States faces even today