Dan Mecca

Despite its brief runtime, the film runs out of steam well before its climax.

Glitter & Doom feels like a beautiful, energetic half-measure.

There are plenty of characters and there is plenty of New York City in writer/director Dustin Guy Defa‘s Person To Person, but the whole thing meanders all over without ever really settling somewhere that matters.

There’s a lot in The Incomer to be admired. Unfortunately, it lasts a bit too long and makes the same joke too many times.

The biting commentary on modern business never really makes an imprint.

Like so many too-late sequels, the film — directed by the first film’s action choreographer Yuen Woo-ping — rides on waves of nostalgia and little else.

Crowe is searching for something as a filmmaker. His first two features may not work as constructed, but it’s clear the themes and emotions within are important to him. There is ambition at the edges, here’s hoping the third time is the charm.

Despite a stacked cast and some impressive physical comedy, this film slips into ridiculousness without the laughs to back it up.

There’s a severe tonal problem this movie never reconciles. It wants to be a self-aware, R-rated comedy and a straightforward action picture. At any moment, it’s one or the other but never both.

Something happened here, and the full story of the making of this movie will surely be far more interesting than the movie itself.

A brutally cynical, largely unfunny film fueled by muddled social commentary.