This movie was awful. It is possible to make a good movie with very minimalistic setting and characters; see, for instance, Tape, My Dinner With Andre, or any number of theatrical adaptations. The trick to doing it is that the audience needs to be interested in the characters. In Nothing, the characters were just not very interesting. What little conflict there was between them seemed totally forced, and the whole "old pals are splitting up, then reconcile" plot is a hoary old chestnut which director Natali does nothing at all to enliven.
I had trouble staying awake during the long, boring stretches of badly done slapstick comedy. Nothing is a film that aspires to be an unremarkable episode of the Outer Limits but winds up being more like a bad kid's cartoon.
The only reason I rated this a two is that no movie which ends with a shot of disembodied heads bouncing off to the horizon can possibly earn less than two.
I had trouble staying awake during the long, boring stretches of badly done slapstick comedy. Nothing is a film that aspires to be an unremarkable episode of the Outer Limits but winds up being more like a bad kid's cartoon.
The only reason I rated this a two is that no movie which ends with a shot of disembodied heads bouncing off to the horizon can possibly earn less than two.