I can't believe the exaggerated positive feedback this title is getting. Don't get me wrong, I like Bell, I absolutely love some of the other actors here but the movie is not in any shape or form deserving of the 7.5-ish rating it gets from both users and metacritic.
It's not bad but it's not good either. It feels all over the place without any real focus, there is a lot of otherwise good stuff (in a longer feature with sharper direction maybe) that ends up as nothing but filler alongside a very weak and otherwise not engaging main story line.
Some people define cinema as the art of showing what you want audiences to see and getting rid of everything else that doesn't bring value to the whole. This is not it. It's a bucket with ALL the stuff thrown right in. It's somebody falling a flight of stairs - funny at times but definitely not Cirque du Soleil grade material. A shame.
It's not bad but it's not good either. It feels all over the place without any real focus, there is a lot of otherwise good stuff (in a longer feature with sharper direction maybe) that ends up as nothing but filler alongside a very weak and otherwise not engaging main story line.
Some people define cinema as the art of showing what you want audiences to see and getting rid of everything else that doesn't bring value to the whole. This is not it. It's a bucket with ALL the stuff thrown right in. It's somebody falling a flight of stairs - funny at times but definitely not Cirque du Soleil grade material. A shame.