Not exact matches
The
film is seriously
uneven with its focus, just as its
uneven with its pacing and, yes, even its style, which is often grounded, or at
least highly atmospheric, until jarring into a touch of abstractionism which is not realized enough for the
film to flow with its themes.
By definition, grab - bag
films are
uneven, and some of Coffee And Cigarettes» segments — a meeting of Spike Lee's less - charismatic siblings, an aloof beauty's lonely afternoon — capture Jarmusch at his most oblique and
least rewarding.
Occasionally
uneven, this is nevertheless one of the brothers» most endearing
films, with a climax involving a gun and an inhaler that is quite possibly the single funniest thing they ever did, at
least until the whole of Burn After Reading.
An
uneven film to say the
least, the
film's most notorious aspects remain its graphic nudity and a rape scene that drags on for a long, detailed time span.
In at
least two occasions, gunfire erupts that ends up (presumably) killing innocent bystanders, but there's nothing funny or remorseful about such shots, further kicking up the cloud of nihilism that suffocates this
uneven film until we feel nothing at all about any of it.