An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since there was a nice cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. On top of that, it was also Peter Bogdanovich’s final directorial effort but it seems that Bogdanovich’s career did end up with a whimper, I’m afraid. Basically, I turned out to be some kind of mix of a 30’s screwball comedy with a Woody Allen’s feature filled up with neurotic characters. Sure, it might sound appealing but not only it felt outdated but, above all, it was just rather boring. Furthermore, I thought that there was something rather misguided about handling the fact that this Broadway director was basically cheating on his wife with some escorts in every US city he did visit as if it was a big joke. It’s not that it was shocking, it’s just that it wasn’t really funny at all. Another issue was that even though some of the characters were not bad, there were just way too many involved and, with a running time of barely 90 mins, there was obviously no time to develop any of them. For example, the whole thing started with the connection between this Broadway director and this prostitute and, yet, they barely spent any time together, even after they started to work on the same play. Instead of developing this relationship, they kept bringing other escorts who were apparently also ‘inspired’ by him as if it was supposed to be hilarious but it made him rather sleazy. On top of that, it made the whole thing seriously random but that’s something that could be said about all the interactions involving any of these characters. Anyway, to conclude, even if the damned thing was rather harmless, it was also really tedious and I don’t think it is really worth a look.