"My dog is more Greek than you are."
Amazon/MGM's Greek-set thriller - from a Jo Nesbo story - finds Levi (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) as a dissolute ex-pat PI hired to investigate the death of the son of a wealthy shipping/crime family in a suspicious free-climbing accident, hired by the weary sister-in-law Penelope (Shailene Woodley) to probe the death further and coming up against her husband, the surviving unpleasant twin brother Elias (Richard Madden). The three usually strong lead actors surprisingly struggle to inject life into their characters in the bland by-the-numbers story and dialogue they are given, not helped by Gordon-Levitt's dour gumshoe-lite voiceover and the overall flat pacing. Not even the (oddly unsunny) locations make up for this rather dull tale. Even the finale reveal is heavily-signposted and comes as no surprise as the very limited scope of the story offers no other real place it could go.
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