Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Sorry, this movie sucks

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

I get that people like movies that are "different" or "artsy" but this is just different. And not the good kind. It is artsy the way a globe welded to a swan shaped piece of metal is artsy. That only means something to people who can find meaning in a globe welded to a swan shaped piece of metal. When I think of art I think of the Mona Lisa.Memento was different and good. This isn't Memento, or anything like it. But it tries, so I guess nowadays it gets a trophy. The running dialogues are just weird, like watching reruns of NYPD Blue. People don't talk like that in real life, to each other or themselves.Hint: You have to wait until the end of the movie to find out "things" that are not really explained. Except not, because it has different "endings" or maybe they are different parallel universes. Or maybe the guy is superhuman and survives each time he gets murdered. Or maybe he is crazy and is imagining everything.Guess what? Who cares. No one. No one who watched this movie to the end cares because it made no sense and ended dumb. Ramen noodle soup cooling off is more entertaining and provides a return on the time investment.I only watched it because some of the previous reviewers said it was good. As bad as it is it will never achieve the status of The Room. Now that was art, an unintentional concoction of things intended but never delivered.

Existing reviews have at least one thing right: the camera work is impressive: very long takes with no cuts. But in just about every other respect this movie is amateurish, treats women as in a cheap 1960s porn movie and features cringe-worthy writing. Amateurish to the hilt. A few very good actors cannot save the adolescent, self-conscious dialog. The bad actors don't help either. The estimable John Hawkes is a round peg in the square hole of this movie. We stopped watching after 40 minutes.

I love film noir and I like indie films, but I found very little to like in this one. For starters, the film is shot in chapters, and each 15-minute chapter (they seem much longer than that, trust me) is a single unbroken hand-held shot. Why? you ask. Absolutely no idea. But the result of this gratuitous construct is that each conversation (and the movie is mostly endless conversation) involves the handheld camera panning from one speaker to the next speaker and back again, over and over and over again. This contributes to a growing sense of vertigo in the viewer as the film progresses. And in the unlikely event that you can get past that, then you've got the script to deal with - an absolutely preposterous and nonsensical hodge-podge of secret identities and hidden relationships that makes not one iota of sense. Mr. Hawkes seems to have cut out a career for himself playing essentially sleaze-bag end-of-the-line private investigators: he recently reprised almost the identical role in another awful film called Small Town Crime. He and some of the other actors are competent, but there is simply nothing to be done with a script this inept.

Hats off to this film and the team. Really an interesting tale and told in an unconventional way. Always nice to see movies which break the mold and challenge the audience. Hawkes is great and the rest of the cast is really strong. You can feel the flaws in these characters as they try to sort out the connections between them.The film has an unique style which does aid in the storytelling and keeps the audience wanting more. Great chemistry between the actors and they really do tie the whole film together with their layered characters.Enjoyed the texture of the 35mm film. While not the perfect digital imagery which has become commonplace... it's flaws give the gritty story an authenticity which matches it perfectly.Really enjoyed it... highly recommended.