Film Review – Wander

Maybe 2020 isn’t the best year to release a movie about a crazed conspiracy theorist embarking on a journey into the heart of paranoia where he’s rewarded for his unhinged thoughts. But here’s “Wander” anyway, with screenwriter Tim Doiron using the current energy of America’s darkest subculture to inspire a slice of detective fiction, only the man on the hunt to solve a murder is a lunatic, coming into contact with the possibility that his wildest fantasies are indeed a reality. “Wander” has a decent idea for a character study, but director April Mullen doesn’t know what to do with it, out to make an itchy viewing experience that’s missing interesting characters and measured acts of hysteria. Material like this would be better suited for the literary realm, with the feature held back by crude filmmaking choices and some wild overacting by lead Aaron Eckhart, who doesn’t have the discipline for the part. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com