Undergoing some girl trouble, Joshua Jackson hops on his bike for a cross country trip through Canada. A friend once told me that this is a trip that everyone should do once in their life, to make you realize how big the world actually is. This low budget, 90 minute, comedy drama fails to convey such a feeling of grandeur. It not actually a bad movie, just a bland one.
It is bland not just narratively but visually. The sky is always cloudy, and the sights are relatively mundane; sometimes even tacky. The camera is turned less towards scenery and more toward the kind giant beaver statues and wax tomem poles next to a road side diner. Jackson gives a one note performance with no motivation. Liane Balaban, as the humble abandoned girlfriend does a better job earning empathy. She seems far more lost that he does. The few emotional moments in the film feel authentic, but the odds attempts at humour fall flat.
Jackson reaches the pacific ocean that the end of his journey, and gets to Kayak in the brief company of a whale. Moments like this might have made the trip worthwhile if there were more of them. Instead the overall experience is too mellow and unremarkable.
It is bland not just narratively but visually. The sky is always cloudy, and the sights are relatively mundane; sometimes even tacky. The camera is turned less towards scenery and more toward the kind giant beaver statues and wax tomem poles next to a road side diner. Jackson gives a one note performance with no motivation. Liane Balaban, as the humble abandoned girlfriend does a better job earning empathy. She seems far more lost that he does. The few emotional moments in the film feel authentic, but the odds attempts at humour fall flat.
Jackson reaches the pacific ocean that the end of his journey, and gets to Kayak in the brief company of a whale. Moments like this might have made the trip worthwhile if there were more of them. Instead the overall experience is too mellow and unremarkable.