Deserves every dime of it's financial failure
What a load of pretentious, art wank nonsense this film really is.
It's bad enough that the story is paper thin and the characters are as unlikeable as an upset stomach (one minute gangsta tough, the next screaming like babies) but the direction is shocking.
It's like a frustrated art student trying out every possible style of image capture. Long shots, close shots, lens flare, angled, shakey cam, slow mo and none of them working.
One pointless scene of a helicopter taking off showed it's ascent from at least 10 different angles - outside looking up, inside looking out, inside looking inside, outside different angle etc etc.
Every character must have had at least two shots of them silent screaming from the Dummies Guide to filming internal angst.
Things aren't explained, geography is not established and you can almost feel the makers telegraphing their contempt to the audience that 'if you don't get this, you're too stupid'.
It's not engaging, thought provoking or entertaining. And when it's finished all you can contemplate is the utter pointlessness of the whole film.
I know many complain of studio execs interfering with a film but you really have to question who greenlit this laughable project or signed off the finished product for general release.
Whoever it was can't tell the difference between a movie and a flickerbook of cool filtered Instagram pics.
Small moves Ellie, small moves