I thought it was gonna be good.......and it started decent enough.....but I just felt beaten down by the end. I just wanted it to be over.
It's so tonally inconsistent I could never get a feel for anything going on. It veered from dark comedy to goofball slapstick to drama...sometimes in the middle of scenes. The jarring camera angles and harsh edits made watching a chore...nevermind the incessant use of terribly written voice overs and unnecessarily stylized "splash cards" with meaningless information on them (we don't need a chipmunk to tell us the side effects of COCAINE use) (or that this is STILL A TRUE STORY!).
Michael Bay still has no idea what makes dialog funny. There were a handful of funny moments, but there were far more that tried and failed. Rebel Wilson is completely wasted.
And can anyone tell me if The Rock's character was actually mentally retarded? He would act completely normal in one scene...and follow it immediately with a moment of unrestrained ignorance....and this was before he relapsed into a delirious coke head.
Man.......fukk me for getting my hopes up for a Michael Bay movie. I'd rather watch ANY of his other movies (other than the abortion that is Transformers 2).
4/10
It's so tonally inconsistent I could never get a feel for anything going on. It veered from dark comedy to goofball slapstick to drama...sometimes in the middle of scenes. The jarring camera angles and harsh edits made watching a chore...nevermind the incessant use of terribly written voice overs and unnecessarily stylized "splash cards" with meaningless information on them (we don't need a chipmunk to tell us the side effects of COCAINE use) (or that this is STILL A TRUE STORY!).
Michael Bay still has no idea what makes dialog funny. There were a handful of funny moments, but there were far more that tried and failed. Rebel Wilson is completely wasted.
And can anyone tell me if The Rock's character was actually mentally retarded? He would act completely normal in one scene...and follow it immediately with a moment of unrestrained ignorance....and this was before he relapsed into a delirious coke head.
Man.......fukk me for getting my hopes up for a Michael Bay movie. I'd rather watch ANY of his other movies (other than the abortion that is Transformers 2).
4/10
if you read the actual article/story it is based on you would be even more disappointed. the script was horrible, the edits were terrible. So much potential in this movie and he fukked it up. they did a piss poor job of explaining everything
