Pretentious, dull, and boring after the first 10 minutes...

Rating: 5/10 (18 January 2010)

I found the first ten minutes or so of the movie intriguing, I wanted to know more about Andrew Largeman. But after the funeral scene the movie is a complete drag all the way to the end credits. Andrew, like the "retarded" football player he plays on TV, is mentally and emotionally disabled, partly due to the fact that he had been drugged profusely throughout his childhood as a treatment for aggression he would exhibit as a child, one such incident left her mother paraplegic bound to a wheel-chair for the rest of her life. Four days, a few drugged orgies, and two days of romance later he may have found his way out of his "disability". But the journey there was dull and uninspiring; weird cannot substitute for experiences that are meaningful and truly transformational. Good soundtrack or cast does not always equate to a good movie without a script of substance.