Title: Pretentious method-acting class fare with "shaky cam"
Review: We keep hearing about great actors with great performances, but mostly these scenes look straight out of method acting classes in New York City: highly melodramatic, hyper serious one-scene shots. In other words, nobody in this movie behaves as they would in real life: every gesture, every line, is highly exaggerated. Maybe I'd be more open to getting over the pretentiousness if I cared about the characters, but there is no attempt to make them interesting. Add to this that the "Law and Order" style shaky-cam never lets up, and you need an aspirin after five minutes. Basically, I'd say that if you loved the movie Traffic -- a better, but also shaky-cam melodramatic pretend version of realism-- then this is the movie for you. If you were not crazy about "Traffic," and you lose patience with the shaky-cam and pretentious actor monologues, let this one go.
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