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Bio:Producing Editor and supporter of recklessly experimental video. Distracted by lights, hyphenated by marriage. All that I really know about the outside world is relayed to me through my electrical connections. N-p9 A-p27
"A few good lines but I just don't get the main character. After five minutes with him, I'd be making excuses to go somewhere else. I know he's written as dodgy but am I supposed to believe the other characters would flock around him? It has a patronising view of Asperger syndrome, and being a US show is of course obsessed with gender and ethnicity along the boundaries of sexist/racist jokes. Yes, you crossed it. And again."
"If this film was improvised minutes after the plot was explained to the cast and cut live by a vision mixer on his first day, then they did a pretty good job. If not, it's a bit of a mess isn't it? I've seen better direction from security cameras. The first couple of Bjork's songs are alright but then they become a bit repetitive. I enjoyed the hanging scene though - great comic timing!"
"Fun action, however... it's padded around generic storytelling and characters, with a rigidly directed style that swings between shiny advertising gimmicks and attempts at Tarantino imitation, all desperately held together by a hard-working soundtrack. The overused shooting-on-the-beat might appeal to a teen audience but I'm far too old for this derivative nonsense. What are you trying to tell me Edgar? is violence cool or not?"
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