So Many Untied Threads

Rating: 3/10 (23 September 2019)

This film felt like a poor adaptation of a book to film, except there was no book. There were plot threads coming from every direction, none of which tied into anything else properly or were ever resolved or even explained for the most part. This happens sometimes in poor book adaptations because the book contains so much more than can be fit into a 2 hour film, but in this case it just had to be really very bad writing. The cast was excellent, except that their roles were so scattershot that they couldn't ever achieve any real impact. I'm pretty sure I cracked a smile a few times through the film, but I certainly never laughed. That's not good if they were trying to make it a comedy. And if they were going for drama, which it sometimes felt like, they either whimped-out or jumped ideas every time they had a chance to actually make something impactful. Ultimately a silly disappointment of a film.