Been There, Seen That

hpodc

score 1/10

Tone of the movie wavers between serious and quirky, never making a definitive choice; as such it succeeds at neither. Far too many "homages" to other movies to stand on its own. Tries to play on LA stereotypes, but the commentary on them only comes across as "making sure each cliché is thrown in the movie somewhere," thereby ensuring that the movie itself exemplifies the most prevalent LA stereotype: style over substance.

Liked the "alternate reality" sequence if only for the fact that it was the one moment in the movie where it tried to say something interesting about life and because I could pretend to be in some other reality where I wasn't watching this movie.

hpodc 26 December 2016

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw3606367/