The title and the casting suggest that it will be a movie about a cover up of something "morally gray" or an accident, or a mix of both, that maybe then will turn into something bigger, where the protagonists deal not just with their own problems but also bigger trouble than themselves (which is indicated in the beginning).
Instead it immediately spirals out into absolute ludricousness of crosses and double-crosses and evil or sociopathy that feels random and without tension and without engagement. It is a short movie, so it is literally without transitions or development one the main "plot" has strated. Before one has gotten into the basic rhythm of the spiralling nonsense and darkness, one may wonders at first if maybe something is supposed to be a hallucination or daydreaming (like when a police officer is immediately on the spot for basically no reason), and so things keep happening, mostly without one being able to pretend in any way a moral grayness or accident or sanity to the proceedings anymore. The title is therefore a straightforward lie, I would also say a failure, as there are still suggestions (like one or two shots of the night sky or a valley) that there would be some actual meaning to it, but that is not a case. It is not a "big nothing", a big "cover-up" of any sort, it is just a straightforward, giant mess, and rather off-putting, with the characters feeling mostly personalityless.
The movie is like a soulless exercise in originality, and one gets the sense, as in the casting by default, that the characters are supposed to be quirky and memorable, which is not the case in the slightest. I would only say that Alice Eve does a slightly interesting sociopathic portrayal, in a fairly low-key, chipper way, but is still served badly by a completely artificial character. David Schwimmer is supposed to be the moral center and just visually console with his long face. Simon Pegg gets into it, but the character remains hollow like the rest of them. I am only describing them in the most basic way, trying to find their "good" points, mostly based on the fact of the casting, but the movie just leaves characters without real presence or depth.
Instead it immediately spirals out into absolute ludricousness of crosses and double-crosses and evil or sociopathy that feels random and without tension and without engagement. It is a short movie, so it is literally without transitions or development one the main "plot" has strated. Before one has gotten into the basic rhythm of the spiralling nonsense and darkness, one may wonders at first if maybe something is supposed to be a hallucination or daydreaming (like when a police officer is immediately on the spot for basically no reason), and so things keep happening, mostly without one being able to pretend in any way a moral grayness or accident or sanity to the proceedings anymore. The title is therefore a straightforward lie, I would also say a failure, as there are still suggestions (like one or two shots of the night sky or a valley) that there would be some actual meaning to it, but that is not a case. It is not a "big nothing", a big "cover-up" of any sort, it is just a straightforward, giant mess, and rather off-putting, with the characters feeling mostly personalityless.
The movie is like a soulless exercise in originality, and one gets the sense, as in the casting by default, that the characters are supposed to be quirky and memorable, which is not the case in the slightest. I would only say that Alice Eve does a slightly interesting sociopathic portrayal, in a fairly low-key, chipper way, but is still served badly by a completely artificial character. David Schwimmer is supposed to be the moral center and just visually console with his long face. Simon Pegg gets into it, but the character remains hollow like the rest of them. I am only describing them in the most basic way, trying to find their "good" points, mostly based on the fact of the casting, but the movie just leaves characters without real presence or depth.