Mr. Redwood

Rating: 4/10 (20 September 2014)

Tim Burton who couldn't make a decent film if they reissued Citizen Kane and replaced the Orson Welles director credit with Burton has found a way to justify the semi-mediocre material he's been turning out for years by making a film ABOUT a lousy filmmaker so that at last he can say, hey, guys, this isn't ME, Tim Burton shooting this crap, it's Ed Wood, so gimme a break why don't you. Burton really hits one out of the park in terms of chutzpah and he's also great at giving the impression he shot Ed Wood for a stick of gum. Martin Landau more or less steals what there is to steal as Bela Lugosi and long-time collaborator Johnny Depp phones it in as the eponymous character, Wood. Apparently Burton was aiming for a comedy but let's face it, Tim old son, the laugh's on you.