Overrated Sundance-chic

Rating: 3/10 (15 May 2008)

Best screenplay?
Oscar Winning Screenplay??? This???
Better than 'There Will Be Blood'???
Better than 'No Country For Old Men'??? WHAT?!?!
It's movies like this, that are destined for straight-to- video, but then become ultra-hip at a festival like Sundance and suddenly a mediocre movie hits the big-time. But what an insult to the writing of the Coen Brothers and PT Andersen that Diablo's bitter-sweet but annoyingly smarmy script took the gong at the Academy Awards. It shouldn't have even been nominated! One thinks that if she 'looked' like a writer - instead of a cross between Marilyn Manson & Elvira, no-one would really care for her. But the novelty of her in the Kodak theatre with all the black ties is one of those 'flavor of the month' moments Hollywood loves.
For lovers of cinema and truly great screen writing, it is a travesty.