Filmed like the crew and director were paid to sabatoge the film.

ballsy but terrible. i enjoyed hitler.

The summary is spot on. Having watched a plethora of cinema, to see someone so selflessly and irreverently moon the modern industry--as well as the modern viewer--is very refreshing. Like 8½, its ostensible dishonesty reveals a charismatic truth, yet Soderbergh still must whet his lips with melodrama, abating the escapist's guilt. But it could have done without the Holy Mountain scene.

experimental, odd, amusing. definitely a refreshing change of scene, not sure that I'd recommend it though.

"An inscrutable experiment too fixated with its own self-reflexivity to ever be about anything in particular." - Ed Gonzalez

36.750

The feeling of experimentation rubs off on the film in both positive and negative ways - the genuine excitement and fun that must've gone into making it is irrepressible and makes it a lot more enjoyable than it should be, but there's a feeling of catching a devised student production halfway through a workshop, right down to the faux-Mamet speech patterns of one sequence between Keener and a man she's firing. Great performances and often funny, but patchy at best.

lots of star power adding up to 'pretty good'

Has its moments but ultimately comes off like a student film - full of good ideas, way short on execution.

Not Soderbergh's most successful experiment (that goes to K Street and Bubble), but pretty good anyway.

weak experiment