nice waste of time

Rating: 4/10 (8 June 2009)

Enjoyed Downey - a great bit of "acting" here, ditto for Tom Cruise. The rest of the cast was the focus - the only focus. I still have no idea what this film is about - and maybe that's what Stiller intended. The movie inside the movie concept? The plot: (as I understood it) movie actors making a Vietnam era film in Vietnam. Production goes awry and the director moves the action without a production crew into the jungle. Allegedly hand held cameras were set to capture the action. The real jungle holds other problems - child drug lords???? That's where I lost interest. However, Stiller and Downey kept something of what I guess is a satire alive.
Sometimes I will watch a film again - and maybe with Tropic Thunder the second time around will be better?