Inauspicious directing and writing debut for JGL

Rating: 4/10 (29 August 2014)

An inauspicious directing and writing debut for Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Dull plot, clumsy direction. The whole movie feels like it was a school project.
Character development is superficial, at best. (Though they were fairly superficial characters. Movie could have been called "Neanderthal mating habits"...)
Some parts of the plot make no sense at all. The romance between Gordon-Levitt's character and Julianne Moore's character seemed incredibly contrived and implausible.
Performances are fine. JGL does a good impersonation of a New Jersey native, and Scarlett Johansson does a good stuck-up princess routine, while looking good doing it. Julianne Moore is irritating, but that's mostly due to the script.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt can only get better from here, directing- and writing-wise.