Too deep into itself to make sense to most

Rating: 3/10 (3 March 2015)

When you have to see a movie more than once to even begin to have an inkling of what it's about then the movie has failed. At the end of this movie when I saw it the audience sat in stunned silence trying to figure out what they had just paid money for. Although Riggins' "powers" were obviously in his mind from the start, the bulk of the movie was so fast paced that it left the viewers no time to process what was really going on. The majority of moviegoers don't want to see Picasso when they're expecting to see Rembrandt. Keaton's and Norton's performances were spectacular and the editing making the movie look like it was done in one take moving from room to room as the story progresses was very well done. But the film was just too deep into the satire of Hollywood insider backgrounds and "former" stars' emotions that it was lost on the ordinary people who paid to see it. It would be like making a satire of of the trials and tribulations of a particle physicist with all the insider jokes about the subject (if there is such a thing). Very few would get it. And very few people got this movie. This was black eye to the Academy for voting it Best Picture. (That's an insider joke about people who pay to go see movies)