Watching Slackistan is a bit like sitting through one of the less eventful episodes of Beverley Hills 90210 but one where the supply of Prozac and peroxide had been cruelly cut off.
Throughout the first hour the key characters drift about morbidly trying to decide which swanky western-style bar or ice cream parlour they want to mope around in. These depressing kids are shown to be so incredibly "Western" that they end up being barely believable. The soundtrack is exclusively western music and the dialogue is a curious and illogical mix of Punjabi and English. The end result is that it just doesn't feel real.
The premise of this film seems to be that some kids in Islamabad are "just like us" and wear western clothes, get drunk and dance in underground nightclubs to rock music. Yes, no doubt some do but the characters just aren't convincing, you don't care what happens to them and the vague plot trudges along so tediously that it leaves you wondering if someone spiked your drink with Mogadon on the way in.
I'm afraid that after an hour of this with still nothing happening and not even the consolation of being made to laugh just once we gave up and left the cinema to find something else to do.
Throughout the first hour the key characters drift about morbidly trying to decide which swanky western-style bar or ice cream parlour they want to mope around in. These depressing kids are shown to be so incredibly "Western" that they end up being barely believable. The soundtrack is exclusively western music and the dialogue is a curious and illogical mix of Punjabi and English. The end result is that it just doesn't feel real.
The premise of this film seems to be that some kids in Islamabad are "just like us" and wear western clothes, get drunk and dance in underground nightclubs to rock music. Yes, no doubt some do but the characters just aren't convincing, you don't care what happens to them and the vague plot trudges along so tediously that it leaves you wondering if someone spiked your drink with Mogadon on the way in.
I'm afraid that after an hour of this with still nothing happening and not even the consolation of being made to laugh just once we gave up and left the cinema to find something else to do.