A bad movie

Of course, I wasn’t expecting much from the damned thing but I have to admit that I was still curious to see the end-result. To be honest, it is rather difficult to judge this movie. I mean, sure, it was pretty much a disaster but, in fact, it wasn’t even supposed to be released. Indeed, the production on this movie was a huge mess and they had to stop shooting several times because of some financial problems. At some point, David O. Russell completely walked away and since then has completely disavowed the damned thing. And, yet, after so many years in production hell, against all expectations, the producers still managed to release the damned thing but the end-result was certainly rather bewildering. Basically, it was some kind of mix of a political satire with a romantic comedy but this mix never worked. It’s not that the jokes were not really funny, it was above all the fact that they were, well, pretty weird and not in a positive way. For example, at some point, Howard Birdwell runs away, something he often does when he gets cornered (which might be one of the few things that were genuinely funny), somehow, he went to some random workshop involving a fire and some shaman and, to make the whole thing even more strange, you got to see James Marsden’s character helping out with whatever he was supposed to do during this ritual/workshop. If you think that what I just wrote was borderline incomprehensible, well, it figures because this scene didn’t make much sense. Concerning David O. Russell, he was quite struggling at the time but he did manage to finally make his come-back in 2010 with ’The Fighter’. Anyway, to conclude, you might wonder if it was really worth releasing the damned thing after all but it is certainly not worth a look, that's for sure.