Hit or Miss: No In between

Rating: 8/10 (14 December 2016)

I really liked this movie. My wife really did not, and I think that sums up how most viewers will respond to this off-beat, very dark comedy. You'll either be into it or very turned off by it.
As others have written, this quirky film is reminiscent of Wes Anderson's work, but without the sweet center at its core. I won't recap the plot. But I will say that I loved the deadpan dialogue that reminds us just how absurd life really is. And despite the laughs falling off in the second half of the film, that part is also important to the underlying thesis: human beings are mostly conformists to systems that they lock into place, for what start off as good reasons but are at odds with the complexity of human nature, at heart.
That's why the second half is crucial here. The loners' group extremism is just as bizarre and unyielding as the City dwellers they battle.