Ugh


Look I'm not gonna pretend that I watched this poorly rated movie for any reason other than Olivia Wilde, but damn. What a ramshackle conglomeration of scenes.

There's a point in the movie where they seemed to realize, "Crap, Sam Rockwell's character sucks. Alright, let's have him turn on the charm. Because of character development." And that's funny for a brief moment, because Sam Rockwell is talented. But it's abrupt and poorly executed. And then the thing takes this weird moral turn, and the movie tapers off without much really happening, a minimal degree of resolution, and really just a lackluster effort at story-telling.

Seriously the movie is just a collection of scenes with a blandly threaded sequence of plot events. It did get me to laugh a couple of times, and Olivia Wilde absolutely lights up any scene she's in. But ultimately, what a waste of time. Why cast such quality actors and then have them spout this drivel and basically spin their wheels for an hour and a half?!

And how are going to end on a moral note, but not resolve the fact that the guy had developed a drug addiction and been stealing from his work?? It's like they made half a dark comedy, but then decided they wanted to focus it on a schlub, but then they cast Sam Rockwell so they decided to add some charm, and then they got Olivia Wilde so they added some sex, mashed it all together with a bunch of bicycle riding and called it a movie.

Just... ugh...

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As good a description of this movie as any I've seen.

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Morally questionable people are still capable of being charming, you know... That's how they're able to execute some of the stuff that they get away with...

It seems like you need clearly signposted 'good' and 'bad'... Life isn't usually so neat, so why insist that movies should be?







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