More fun for the actors than the viewers who pay for it

Rating: 4/10 (28 March 2014)

Don't assume that critical acclaim means that this a great movie. This is a movie that perhaps actors or drama students would love; makeup people; set dressers etc. because it is completely aesthetic. The dialogue kills the movie - very interesting actors and pacing, but - and its a huge obstacle - the dialogue doesn't move the plot forward. This is self-indulgent movie making. Your job as a film maker is to tell a story, properly. I just don't know how this one got off the ground... perhaps it was a vehicle to display the actors, who are interesting, good-looking and talented. Too bad the bones of the film are broken. This one could have been fixed: new script, keep it TIGHT, take off a layer of the "icing" by which I mean the overly-dramatized 70s era props and styling (like the hair - who cares, its a hairstyle, get over it and don't depend on it so much), and in the end, do your job and keep me interested. This movie feels like a drama school project and not a real piece. There is no reality in it whatsoever... from the opening scene "Some of this actually happened..." don't bother putting that statement in if all you have is fiction.