What's with this character?

Rating: 4/10 (20 June 2018)

The focus of the film is a bizarre character portrayed by James Franco. (Good performance by the way, James)
All the character's strange traits take our attention, but don't do anything for this film. Backstory, a mystery. Motives, hard to say. Every aspect of the plot could have been done with a normal character, which leaves me wondering what the point was.
Maybe with a normal character, I could have focused on the story & given this film some better appreciation.