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Review title: Ridiculously confusing mess
Product review: This starts out alright, but rather quickly veers into a maze of stories within stories, muddled transitions, confusing lines of plot development, what seems like the old play-within-a-play device, not to mention characters who we never develop the slightest interest in. Charlie Kaufman, the self-absorbed screenwriter who got way too much credit for movies like "Eternal Sunshine," directed this and got way too ambitious. We simply don't care about the main character, Philip Seymour Hoffman playing a director, nor do we ever develop any sympathy for anyone else here. The movie tries to cover a long time period, I guess, which just ends up being another over-the-top element. In the end, I have no idea what this sprawl was about. If I want to work this hard, I would get a job. For entertainment, I would look elsewhere.
