I already know i will struggle to separate the film review, from the "reviews review". I can't help but read the reviews of "10/10 and absolute masterpiece" and then feel the need to call them out on how ridiculously wrong they are.
Less Than Zero is a film about kids in that college age when, coming from a good family, they are now due to decide on which path to become millionaires. As you do.
Robert Downey Junior's character decides that this will be via becoming a Record Producer.
His college friends tell him, "we love you RDJ, but you are a bit of a knucklehead". And he's like "NOOOoooo, i am not knucklehead".
Guess what. He is.
So he manages to do very little record producing, but mostly just manages to snort fifty grand worth of coke, all the while becoming an even bigger knucklehead (by now you should have figured out this word is a stand-in for something else).
And then he dies.
Now, certainly the INTENT to do a decent drama is there, but with some massive faults, the very first of which is what i find annoying in all the "ooh such masterpiece" reviews; the acting is ATROCIOUS.
RDJ might be the least horribad of the bunch, but we're seriously talking about Weird Science -level of acting, it's just not good enough to make it into a drama.
The direction is horrible as well, as is the photography, and in general the production is very mediocre.
The script is very weak, the unlikable protagonist (who disappears for about 2/3 of the film, as the directors though that other characters had just as much relevance) has no arc, so i'm not sure in what exactly i'm supposed to get invested in.
.. this is just a bad film. Nothing worth digging for, however your time is your own so if you want to throw it away on this film, be my guest.
My vote: 4/10.
Less Than Zero is a film about kids in that college age when, coming from a good family, they are now due to decide on which path to become millionaires. As you do.
Robert Downey Junior's character decides that this will be via becoming a Record Producer.
His college friends tell him, "we love you RDJ, but you are a bit of a knucklehead". And he's like "NOOOoooo, i am not knucklehead".
Guess what. He is.
So he manages to do very little record producing, but mostly just manages to snort fifty grand worth of coke, all the while becoming an even bigger knucklehead (by now you should have figured out this word is a stand-in for something else).
And then he dies.
Now, certainly the INTENT to do a decent drama is there, but with some massive faults, the very first of which is what i find annoying in all the "ooh such masterpiece" reviews; the acting is ATROCIOUS.
RDJ might be the least horribad of the bunch, but we're seriously talking about Weird Science -level of acting, it's just not good enough to make it into a drama.
The direction is horrible as well, as is the photography, and in general the production is very mediocre.
The script is very weak, the unlikable protagonist (who disappears for about 2/3 of the film, as the directors though that other characters had just as much relevance) has no arc, so i'm not sure in what exactly i'm supposed to get invested in.
.. this is just a bad film. Nothing worth digging for, however your time is your own so if you want to throw it away on this film, be my guest.
My vote: 4/10.