Plot
The events leading up to an 11:14 p.m. Car crash, from five very different perspectives.
Cast
Henry Thomas, Colin Hanks, Ben Foster, Patrick Swayze, Clark Gregg, Hilary Swank, Shawn Hatosy, Rachael Leigh Cook and Jason Segel! No shortage of star power but written/directed by a person with less film experience than I have in thermo-dynamics.
Verdict
I keep seeing in the reviews that this movie is intelligent, that it's smart and I'm confused where people are getting that from. Am I missing something or is the bar for something to constitute as intelligent really just that incredibly low.
The concept where it's the same story told from multiple characters perspectives is not new, in fact it was done quite close to this in 1999 with Go starring Sarah Polley, Jay Mohr and Timothy Olyphant where it's how 3 different characters saw different elements of a drug deal gone wrong.
That's not intelligent, it's just filming a the same scenes and events from multiple characters perspectives, which in this case may enlighten us to other things we'd not seen in the previous angle but doesn't deliver intelligence nor entertainment for that matter.
The plot didn't warrant all these different perspectives, there are no interesting developments and surprisingly there isn't even a big twist at the end either! The movie just suddenly ends abruptly, roll credits and let the disappointment creep in.
If this is what passes as intelligent I really am concerned.
Rants
This is another one of those movies that suffers from the terrible protagonists issue. Namely, who am I rooting for? Every character is just a terrible human being that I wish ill on, I can't cheer these people on! So if I don't have a suitable protagonist it irreparably damages the film for me.
Breakdown
Impressive cast Doesn't really go anywhere Far from "Intelligent" Doesn't have an ending.
The events leading up to an 11:14 p.m. Car crash, from five very different perspectives.
Cast
Henry Thomas, Colin Hanks, Ben Foster, Patrick Swayze, Clark Gregg, Hilary Swank, Shawn Hatosy, Rachael Leigh Cook and Jason Segel! No shortage of star power but written/directed by a person with less film experience than I have in thermo-dynamics.
Verdict
I keep seeing in the reviews that this movie is intelligent, that it's smart and I'm confused where people are getting that from. Am I missing something or is the bar for something to constitute as intelligent really just that incredibly low.
The concept where it's the same story told from multiple characters perspectives is not new, in fact it was done quite close to this in 1999 with Go starring Sarah Polley, Jay Mohr and Timothy Olyphant where it's how 3 different characters saw different elements of a drug deal gone wrong.
That's not intelligent, it's just filming a the same scenes and events from multiple characters perspectives, which in this case may enlighten us to other things we'd not seen in the previous angle but doesn't deliver intelligence nor entertainment for that matter.
The plot didn't warrant all these different perspectives, there are no interesting developments and surprisingly there isn't even a big twist at the end either! The movie just suddenly ends abruptly, roll credits and let the disappointment creep in.
If this is what passes as intelligent I really am concerned.
Rants
This is another one of those movies that suffers from the terrible protagonists issue. Namely, who am I rooting for? Every character is just a terrible human being that I wish ill on, I can't cheer these people on! So if I don't have a suitable protagonist it irreparably damages the film for me.
Breakdown
Impressive cast Doesn't really go anywhere Far from "Intelligent" Doesn't have an ending.