Not all that original

Rating: 5/10 (14 October 2013)

This movie has it's moments, but it suffers from something similar to what "The Bling Ring" 2013 suffers from. It has a interesting and attachable concept and ideas going for it. But it's direction and execution is poorly done. Kind of amateurish, but it's from a first time director. What makes this movie stand out, is how it relates to some males out there. And some females as well. This is a observation movie coming from the thoughts of the protagonist, well the observation and mindset of Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I thought the first segment got the point across, but it decides to rinse and repeat. Which would have been fine if, it added more to the substance of it all. I guess it's to show the repetition of life for some. But it just doesn't work as a whole, since after it gets it's message across it didn't seem to add anything to it. Well at least not enough. It is a confident movie, but I don't know about it being edgy or all that original. This movie started out with an idea, but just didn't have enough to have that momentum going. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a character actor and it shows in this. He manages to pull of something different just about every time. Scarlett Johansson was fine in this as well.
5/10