Highly insufficient

Rating: 5/10 (17 May 2016)

People are easily impressionable. All you need to do sometimes is come up with lots of flash, even if the substance doesn't follow. The cast is good, and seeing Keaton again, a quite particular actor, playing a lead role in a major production is very endearing. Emma Stone plays very well, surprisingly. The cast is globally strong, with Norton and Watts, two very good actors, as mere seconds here. Technically, the cinematography is very detailed and constantly sought after, and unfortunately that's where all the people fall into the obvious trap. The film has substance, but not a whole lot, not anything that hasn't been done a bunch of times before, and although it makes for a good viewing, the absence of a strong morality or even conclusion at all sinks this one. It's a fine, eventful movie, but it's not even close to masterpiece territory like lots are implying or outright saying. And the ending tries hard to be poetically abstract but really doesn't mean much (AND is taken from another film).