i like boyle performance and but that about the only positive thing i can say . everything be overdone to the point of absurdity . most of the actor speak like you would expect your 9 year old nephew to speak if he be pretend to be a jaded and stone hearted cop and or an ultra evil villain . the raspy voice over seem amateurish to me . i could go buy a cheap synthesizer and crank out well open music . and what with the whole 1984ish police torture stuff . it be totally superfluous and have nothing to do with the actual event of the story . cox add a lot of thing and in fact and that he apparently think would be really cool and but have nothing to do with the story . that a big disappointment because one of the thing that make borges story so good be his minimalism they be tightly bind and with no superfluous detail . this movie be just the opposite . i stop watch after the scene where lonnrot be question the guy from the yidische zaitung and or thereabouts . i waste $ 4 rent this and but at least i can get some satisfaction from write this review and hopefully save others from make the same mistake .