Like watching paint dry

Rating: 2/10 (2 June 2006)

God, what a boring movie...I like Jim Jarmusch's work--while his films don't always succeed, at least he's original. But this movie was just so pointless. Very few of the conversations were even mildly entertaining. I was looking at my watch waiting for something to happen. If you're going to stick people on the screen and just have them talk, then the dialogue better be interesting. But that wasn't the case here. Perhaps that was because the actors improvised all their dialogue -- I don't know how much was scripted and how much was improvised. But if it was scripted, the script sucked.
The pairings of the various actors/actresses were interesting, and I did like the scene with Alfred Molina and Steve Coogan, but it still wasn't enough to make the film worth seeing.