This film had no story. Nothing happens. Then it ends, sort of.

I agree 150%. This was one of THE WORST, check that, THE WORST movie I've ever had the displeasure to sit thru. You nailed it completely. NOTHING HAPPENS!!! For 90 minutes, absolutely nothing occurs worth watching. You will be more entertained watching yer neighbor mow his lawn.

Son, you can't polish a turd

Tyler Perry was the salesman, making white people slaves in his big fuxkoff gay mansion. Black people can't be racist? Like *beep*

I think the aimlessness of the film was meant to portray the boredom and hoplessness of Blake despite his fame. Only when he sings do you really get a sense of the turmoil he feels.

It is a tough film to sit through, however, as Blake shuffles around mumbling a lot, and his lousy band mates doing nothing to help their meal ticket other than to bother him for their own needs.

Spot on. This movie made me contemplate visiting the shed myself. I do not give out ones very easily (so far 5 movies out of 653) but this movie was such a mess on pretty much every level that I felt the need to rant for a minute.

I'm not someone who needs things "spelled out" for me, but the entire plot seemed to be non sequitur after non sequitur... a series of small anecdotes that go nowhere at all and don't contribute to either a.) any kind of actual film message or b.) the depression and fatal drug habit of Blake. What was the point of the door to door evangelism that didn't even target or further develop the main character, but instead showed muddled and limited interactions with the underdeveloped side characters? What was the point of the random and later unexplored bisexual band-mate make out session? I haven't seen such random plotting since The Room, but of course, this doesn't have even a tenth of the entertainment value of that movie. What was the deal with the P.I. and the Donovan character? Again, yet another underdeveloped plot point that did nothing to explain Blake's ordeal.

Moreover, I know I can't be the only one that felt absolutely nothing for any of the characters.... You don't have to love a character, you don't have to hate a character, but if characters garner no respect or reaction at all, a movie has failed. It's a character study with no characters. A character study.... with no characters. Think about that. This is easily one of the laziest and poorly made movies that I've ever seen and fails in pretty much every aspect of storytelling, character development, script, etc. It's unbelievable to me that this is the same director who has made good-to-great films such as Milk and Finding Forrester.

I can't believe the sound design award win, as most of the dialogue sound is muffled mumbling in this movie, along with over-extended, obnoxious and repetitive use of Boyz II Men and Velvet Underground. Add to this the poorly timed and jarring audio loop in one of the scenes were the Blake character is jamming and the whole thing is a real head-scratcher.

Last but not least, while the cinematography wasn't bad from a technical standpoint, I have to say it irked me to high hell from an artistic standpoint. I think all the far off shots and depth panning were done intentionally to create that feeling of eerie isolation and despair, but it was definitely overdone in my eyes... and the static shot of the bush for about a minute after Blake trips outside?

Come on... this isn't art, it's just bad in every sense. It's a shame, because Michael Pitt and Lukas Haas are generally excellent actors, and I feel they did what they could with this script. F effort, D- execution.

People want action action action and everything to happen RIGHT NOW.

This clearly isn't for you and clearly are biased.