"wearying". This remake also suffered from comparison and contrasting with the original film on which it's based. His most recent directorial and producer credit was the film Mojave, which he also wrote. Announced on March 22, 2012, and cast between December 4 until well past principal photography began, production was stalled until September 27, 2013. The film was released on DirecTV Cinema on December 3, 2015, prior to opening in a limited release on January 22, 2016. The Rotten Tomatoes consensus for the movie is that it "has no shortage of talent on either side of the camera; unfortunately, it amounts to little more than a frustrating missed opportunity." Sean Burns ripped into the movie, calling it "elliptical and at times preposterously entertaining, [a movie] that both sends up and embraces every chest-beating trope in that old alpha 'He-Man of letters' tradition", and dances with the idea that some of the movie "is Monahan indulging in a bit of sardonic self-flaggelation [sic] for all his success in the industry". The Observer's Rex Reed labeled it "gibberish with guns and phony literary pretentiousness about two thugs in a duel of weapons and words that goes nowhere fast", contending that his high-quality work on The Departed was inexplicable, as he had "written nothing of value since". Continuing, he said that "as a director he evokes gales of guffaws". Works Novel Light House: A Trifle (2000) Film References Further reading The shooting script for The Departed is available for download on Warner Bros. website Interviews External links 1960 births 20th-century American journalists American male journalists 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American screenwriters American magazine editors American male novelists American male screenwriters American people of Irish descent Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award winners Living people Novelists from Massachusetts People from Dorchester, Massachusetts Screenwriters from Massachusetts University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni Writers from Boston