After an opening act filled with brilliant action sequences and entertaining banter amongst the crew,
the film digresses from an interesting tour of the sea to a tedious and lifeless bore.
The film digresses unnecessarily into the lives of an Israeli commando and his modern dancer girlfriend, juxtaposing the Entebbe raid with her performance as if the two events are somehow compatible.
This is all fine until
the film digresses into a Nickelodeon skit gone horribly awry, turning into a boring extended episode of All That.
Not exact matches
But I
digress, I think the
film does increase in silliness once the Hoff appears.
But I
digress, moving on to this
film, which falls into the average / below average pile.
But I
digress, the problem this
film has, outside of some very ugly, vile, crass attempts at humor, is the fact that it just isn't funny enough to be considered a comedy.
With that said, there were no true surprises here for yours truly, as the
film continued to
digress from the super-intense drama it started out as into a softcore action
film littered with dead bodies and a dispirited conclusion.
At the very least, I hoped a
film set in Pittsburgh would show some love for the mighty Steelers instead of the lowly Pirates, but I
digress.
I sat down with Korine at the last - minute interview session ostensibly to talk about his role in the
film, but the conversation quickly
digressed.
OK, let me
digress from the rant to explain why I don't give it one star, considering how upset this
film made me.
Moving on quickly and before I
digress even further, Reichardt's
film stars Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard plus Rising starlet Katherine Waterston (click here for more info on her) and focuses on those initial three and their plans of blowing up a hydroelectric dam.
Typically, I turn my nose up at a
film which
digresses unabashedly into raunchiness and the over use of the F - bomb, but Wain and his exceptional cast had me from the opening scene.
Certainly some of that budget should have gone to better marketing, but I'll
digress since it doesn't really bear on the substance of my feelings regarding the
film.