I'm a huge Aaron Sorkin fan (ever since The West Wing), but because this movie has
an utterly unlikable protagonist it's difficult to care about anything that happens to her — no matter how clever the banter between characters.
The unredeemable problem with Happy Christmas is that the screenplay presents a protagonist who is
utterly unlikable, and is paired with a best friend who is equally unlikeable.
In making his movie, he deliberately took advantage of the lack of this framework, and a different set of communicative expectations, namely, the expectation that his characters were real people, dense but not
utterly unlikable.
Not exact matches
Turturro's character is manifestly
unlikable in almost every way: sanctimonious, patronizing, hypocritical, and
utterly devoid of self - awareness.