Carnage

With its high pedigree cast and Roman Polanski as its director, I expected more from CARNAGE. Set wholly during one afternoon's conversation in a Manhattan apartment, Carnage puts together an upscale couple (Cristoph Waltz and Kate Winslet) whose son has beat up the son of a more middle class couple (Jodie Foster & John C. Reilly). Waltz and Reilly are excellent, Winslet is good and Foster is so grating and angry she becomes unpleasant to watch. The constant cell phone interruptions and false exits seem awful forced. Carnage is a sheep in 'Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf's" clothing......C.