Philosophically Confusing

Rating: 6/10 (11 March 2015)

This movie basically comes right out and tells you it is a philosophical movie. the only problem? Nobody understands any of the metaphors or other philosophical musings. The movie is intense and aided by intense performances by Ed Norton & Michael Keaton, and we kind of got the gist that Keaton & Norton were theater performers; Keaton was formerly a star of a highly successful hero movie. The One takeaway I got was that the human race is highly susceptible to stupid story lines as long as the movie has cool special effects, and that actors can always return to that role if they are down on their luck. I'm not really sure where they were going with that, because they could have easily portrayed that without a philosophically jumbled confusing movie. Emma Stone was a good fit for the role of Keaton's daughter-- but had no place being the love interest of a twice-her-age Ed Norton. It was OK for Norton to be the creep hitting on her, but not OK for her to be willing and ready--that just doesn't make sense. Somehow, the actors still captivated my attention at times, but the movie is so hard to follow, I still don't know if I know what it's about. Basically, this is a horrible script that happened to get good actors along the way.