"Under the Silver Lake" is a superbly strange, interesting, clever, witty kind of slacker suspense story which is undercut by the New Millennium Curse (NMC).
You see, in the new millennium, almost all movies are cursed in the following way: they are too long. This is fatal to a thriller. The movie assembles its conspiracy with details that are too spaced out to be easily correlated in the viewer's mind, and thus, suspense does not build.
However, there is a lot to like about the movie besides that. Andrew Garfield, particularly, is brilliant in the lead role.
You see, in the new millennium, almost all movies are cursed in the following way: they are too long. This is fatal to a thriller. The movie assembles its conspiracy with details that are too spaced out to be easily correlated in the viewer's mind, and thus, suspense does not build.
However, there is a lot to like about the movie besides that. Andrew Garfield, particularly, is brilliant in the lead role.