Okay, I didn't know anything about this except from the description on my flight's entertainment system, but a detective comedy is very much something I'm prone to like and it had good stars so I took a look.
The movie begins with a huge chunk of exposition in which Ben Stiller simply relates stuff about his employer, both praising him to a potential client and lambasting him in a bar. This is very tedious and goes on quite a while.
Then we finally meet the genius detective, Pullman, and he is just the most annoying person in the world. Not funny annoying, just irksome and unpleasant.
It was so dumb and annoying that I had to stop. Does it get better? Do the positive reviews here represent that after a really dreadful, poorly constructed, badly written start the movie somehow becomes great? It's possible. But even trapped on an airplane I couldn't watch anymore.
The movie begins with a huge chunk of exposition in which Ben Stiller simply relates stuff about his employer, both praising him to a potential client and lambasting him in a bar. This is very tedious and goes on quite a while.
Then we finally meet the genius detective, Pullman, and he is just the most annoying person in the world. Not funny annoying, just irksome and unpleasant.
It was so dumb and annoying that I had to stop. Does it get better? Do the positive reviews here represent that after a really dreadful, poorly constructed, badly written start the movie somehow becomes great? It's possible. But even trapped on an airplane I couldn't watch anymore.