yawn - what was it about?

Rating: 5/10 (15 February 2005)

Having heard of Jim Jarmusch but not seen any of his films I thought I'd give him a go. If this was representative of his work I wont see any more.
Films structured around vignettes can be engaging with the right material: ordinary people - real life, slices of the drama of the ordinary. This was not that; it was just a sequence of Jim's famous mates expanding on some less than engaging and theme-less theme of coffee and cigarettes.
I didn't get it and I don't think there was anything *to* get. Alfred Molina and Steve Coogans skit was funny; the only highpoint in a flat film.
Don't bother. Spend the ticket price on beer.