Sunday 15 February 2015

Inherent Vice

Whoever put together the trailer for Inherent Vice deserves a bloody huge medal, because only a magician in the editing room could've disguised one the most frustrating watches in recent memory as a slick, slacker whodunit in the same vein as The Big Lebowski. Instead what we get is a film that’s as impenetrable as a junkie's mind-set (“but that’s the point!”, say Thomas Pynchon enthusiasts; “piss off”, says me) and a host of cool-looking characters that fail to do or say anything remotely memorable. At 149 minutes long, it feels like being a sober person trapped in a crack house, surrounded by mumbling stoners that occasionally laugh at each other’s incoherent jokes.


1/5

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