The dullest numbest indie movie ever

Rating: Null/10 (6 November 2004)

It is an achievement... I don't know Braff. I don't watch Scrubs.
What I can say about him is that he is a a bad director, a bad actor, and a worse writer but he is brave. Brave enough to get Natalie Portman and Ian Holm in scenes with him when it takes them a flicker of the eyes, a ghost of a smile or a frown to get where he's not after 1 hour of dialog!
I've seen other people comment this movie was overrated... It's one word for it. The direction is unambitious (if you don't count the motion effect... slow... fast... slow and the alternative bands music clips... well even if you count them). The writing is awful. The dialogs are meaningless.
I love Natalie Portman but it's one movie I wouldn't recommend. She could make the yellow pages sound emotional and she came close to it in that movie. She has no character but she is so natural in it, it's like watching real TV without the hystrionics.
In fact, it's like watching real TV. When I say it's the numbest indie I've seen... it's exactly that. It falls into all the pits and traps of indie movies... It's slow, inconsistent, tries to jump from comedy to drama and back every two seconds and fails every time, there's a subject but no story... a pity!
It's nothing more than a teen flick that pretends to be deep at times and never even get to the level of the worse romantic comedy... Don't worry though... there's the happy end sealed with the ending kiss.
Watching it makes you feel like the main character... zombified. You really feel like you're on drugs, not the fun kind.