Boredom of an Audience

Rating: 4/10 (21 February 2010)

This is yet another of those films that draws the dividing line between the pretentious film fan and also a generational one between GenX/GenY and everyone else.
As an older Xer I don't buy into the snarky poseur mentality of most of my generation (and those that came after and can't even do that well) and this film is a perfect example of what crap is celebrated as art.
The film is a dud - like a bomb that doesn't go off it just lays there - like a bad lover who can't perform. It moves slow, it's ugly to look at, what's-his-name-lead-actor-Brit smirks his way through half of it (you're just waiting for him to crack wise and break character) and this whole predilection Xers and Ys have with the browns and greys and the blah of the 70s aesthetic is showcased in the production design - sigh.
Lousy pacing, cartoonish characters, a pedestrian plot, and a simply awful and cheap look to the thing.
Watch Zardoz and see what this film wishes it could have even been half of.