After watching Jake Gyllenhaal's absorbing performance in "Nighcrawler" and Denis Villeneuve's amazing "Arrival", I came here expecting to be blown away.
I was sadly underwhelmed. The whole thing feels, to me, poorly (or dare I say lazily) put together. It tries too hard to be sophisticated and ends up a pile of pretentious, airy-fairy mumbo jumbo.
This film brings back memories of Spike Jonze's far superior "Adaptation", a movie which I put off watching for a long time but when I got round to it, easily became one of my favourites.
I was sadly underwhelmed. The whole thing feels, to me, poorly (or dare I say lazily) put together. It tries too hard to be sophisticated and ends up a pile of pretentious, airy-fairy mumbo jumbo.
This film brings back memories of Spike Jonze's far superior "Adaptation", a movie which I put off watching for a long time but when I got round to it, easily became one of my favourites.