I have that feeling of receiving a present, feeling a lot of anticipation unwrapping it, only to find it's something I already have. The lead up was dramatic, but the way things panned out made me feel I should have received more.
Catherine's high profile career had no real influence as a concept and I wonder why it was highlighted so much early on.
I too am very pleased with the way things went regarding SBC. His character was weasel like and horrible. He played it excellently.
I don't have a problem with anyone's acting, I think Cate Blanchett did an excellent job within the small range of emotion she was proscribed to convey. It wasn't realistic though and I don't know if that's the fault of the author or director.
I found the sudden flip to belief of the father a bit too sudden and easy. I wanted a more drawn out conclusion in his case. Perhaps more of a redemption? The ending deemed pointless.
One redeeming feature: I think the actress who played the younger Catherine is really excellent and outdid Cate Blanchett on this occasion. Without giving it away, I really felt every moment of that particular point in the film and she played every view point convincingly.
But either the author or director needed to have been more clued up on human behaviour and NHS procedures. A close relative was in a London hospital but as I was not the named designated next of kin, I could not go in to see him outside of visiting times despite appealing to emotion. Nurses made me go wait in the cafe until the proper time. I found the hospital scenes and even the nurse casually prescribing such a strong sleeping pill over a myriad other more routine ones, totally unbelievable among other things.
6/10 (in my humble opinion)