A Hollywood producer (Robert De Niro) struggles with reconciling with his ex wife, getting a director to fix the end of his movie and convincing Bruce Willis to shave off a beard.
As thrilling as that sounds.
The big secret about the movie business is that it really quite dull. From the outside people things its very glamorous and exciting. On the inside, it’s a lot of sitting about and waiting for something to happen. I’ve made a few things myself, and the one short film that I wrote and directed comes out at about 8 minutes. It took 8 hours to make. If you include editing time its closer to 16. That’s one minute of film for every 2 hours of work, and that was super fast guerrilla film making with no extra footage to cut out. So that should give you an idea of how exciting making a film actually is.
The film really should be called “what was the point of that?” as that’s its main problem. Trying to get an edit done on a movie and a beard shaved off would only work if it had a sharp, witty script. It doesn’t. Which is a shame.
A film starring Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Stanley Tucci, Catherine Keener, Bruce Willis, John Turturro and Michael Wincott shouldn’t be boring. This is. In fact the best thing for me was seeing Wincott in something for once. I love that guy, he should be in more films.
If you’re a movie producer, you might enjoy this. If not, you probably won’t. It feels extremely under developed. If this had been done in the style of In The Loop it might have been decent, as it stands its just half baked.
Next up: Kick Ass!
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