Garbage

Rating: 3/10 (6 March 2018)

This film is genuinely poor. Characterisation ranges from cliched to nonexistent. Genuinely.
Leading character is the architypal broken down drunk who chain smokes and generally wastes his talents.
Romantic lead is inexplicably drawn to said broken down drunk. No back history or logic offered there.
Lead has long standing rivalry with another younger more commercially successful performer.
Yawn. Too bored to continue.
It has no depth. No weight of interest. It operates within a genre without doing anything new or expanding that genre. It's not even derivative because nothing within this film is new. At all. Derivative at least suggests something is new.
Jeff Bridges delivers a wildly over hyped performance that shouldn't ever win an Oscar. It is wrong that it won an Oscar.
This film is up over seven stars. Want to see something similar but undoubtedly better? Walk the Line.