Demento

Rating: 1/10 (29 April 2013)

After watching this for about 2 or 3 hours, and not enjoying anything, I felt obliged to look at my watch. Yumping Yiminy ! Only 20 minutes had passed by ! At this rate it was going to feel like 24 hours before I got to the end. So I'll confess: I accelerated the action. I might have missed a few plot points, but it didn't seem to matter much.
Hang on. I guess I've said those words already about another movie made about the same time as this one. Actually made only 2 years earlier. I gave that one 2 stars, but I'll give this one just 1 star. Although this one had better actors. But the story was even more confusing. They made a film, then chopped it up into little pieces, and re-arranged these bits in a haphazard way. So they lost me. It was silly. The idea of Polaroid photos and daft little notes was just stupid. I couldn't remember anything that had happened, didn't want to, and it almost made me demented. This kind of playing with time worked great in Pulp Fiction, but there it was gripping and generally masterfully handled. Here it was fatuous. Eight point six stars ! Number 34 ! Has everyone in the world gone insane ?