Flexing with Monty (2010)

Incomprehensible Dreck

“Allegedly, it took director John Albo six years to distribute this pseudo-art film to the public. He should have waited longer. Or better yet, not distributed it at all. "Flexing With Monty" is an unappealing, unlikable, incomprehensible, badly written mess. It's not the acting that's the problem. The actors try their best (Rudi Davis being the weakest) but are weighed down by a bad script. Very little of the dialogue seems like something anyone in the real world would say.

Stylized dialogue can be an asset- it can be witty and smart ("Juno") or deliberately enigmatic and formal ("The Living and the Dead," an art film which I loved, by the way.) The dialogue in "Flexing With Monty" is stiff, pretentious, overly sexual-minded, self-indulgently perverse, and shocking for the sake ” read more