Great constant mood setting though all around it's flat story

Rating: 6/10 (15 October 2015)

The movie did very well in depicting the familiar movie mood of a metropolitan city that doesn't sleep at night, yet it sends a lonesome but anxious mood. I saw a few movies using this kind of mood, but they mainly use it with a US city backdrop setting such as New York or Chicago. I like how this movie always comes back to this mood depiction even after all those scenes that indicated a climb in the mood. The coloration also helped much in bringing this mood at the fore. But all in all, the story feels very much flat. There's no real change in the characters or their relationships, particularly as they end the movie just the way as they started it. It made some characters felt like they're only there as mannequins to complete the story angles. The acting overall is good. Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson did very well in portraying the anxieties their characters have. Giovanni Ribisi and Anna Faris, as I said, were only there as complimentary characters.