Director Jean-Marc Vallée's Demolition is the kind of indie fodder that tells the whole story in one two-and-a-half minute trailer. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a successful investment banker, Davis Mitchell, whose wife dies in a tragic car accident. Despite his father-in-law/boss Phil (Chris Cooper) encouraging him to get his life back on track, Davis starts to unravel and develops an odd coping mechanism: taking things apart -- refrigerators, computers, bathroom stalls, you name it. But it isn't until Davis meets another woman (Naomi Watts) and her young son (Judah Lewis) that he considers rebuilding his life from the ground up.
Even now, you can probably guess where this story is heading. But as predictable as Demolition is, it comes with enough solid performances and witty dialogue to kill a brisk 100 minutes. Gyllenhaal in particular really commits to the lead role, which demands both emotional detachment and dry humor. You see, even though his wife has just died, Davis doesn't really feel one way or the other about it -- contrary to the rest of his family -- which is where most of the comedy stems from.
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