7/10
too much, but still really good
13 June 2006
I don't know if it's just me, but I can't take that too information being being thrown at me 100 times a minutes just so it can so how all fit into a good, but not great and supremely over the top conclusion. If you think I'm going to bash this film, I'm not, I gave it an 7, and yes, albeit, I usually give all the films I rate on here tens, but that's because I only usually rate films I absolutely love. But I did love this movie. I loved all the little in jokes about Los Angeles, about actors and effed up females in California, I loved the dialogue especially, extremely witty and right to the point. But the thing about the film in general is that everything, while to the point, is pointed in every possible direction. The narrative is so boggling tangential that I couldn't find to focus on exactly what transpired. But I'll watch it again, I'm sure, and I'm sure I'll pick up more the next time, all the little details that just kind of flew right past me. And I don't have a problem with that, normally I love re-watching a film if it's clever like this, but usually that's with a film like Domino or Running Scared, where you got the basic plot and the characters and even some little things thrown out at you to pick up on, but this movie, this movie is so layered and slightly pretentious, I won't know where to start, who to pay attention to. Overall: acting good, dialogue good, action good, story...everywhere but where it ultimately needed to be for me.
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