The Canyons

IFC Films | Release Date: August 2, 2013

5.8	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 48 Ratings

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nicholasbertJun 26, 2014

Oh man! The worst film I've seen in years! And the worst acting I've ever seen in my life, including the tapes of my mother's wedding. Beaker's puppet without the puppeteer delivers more than "James Deen" and Lindsay Lohan combined. When IOh man! The worst film I've seen in years! And the worst acting I've ever seen in my life, including the tapes of my mother's wedding. Beaker's puppet without the puppeteer delivers more than "James Deen" and Lindsay Lohan combined. When I started watching this, and there was that scene in the beginning, I was laughing my teeth out. But enough with jokes.

I know it's low budget. It's supposed to be looking the way it is. But that's not where the problems are. When I read that it was Bret Easton Ellis who wrote the script, I thought "Oh, he's a good writer, it's going to be a good film." Then I realised B.E.E. has written the same story for almost thirty years now, in a dozen of different books. So no. The story is bad, the dialogue is not good, the acting is awful, the music is annoying, the visuals are amateur: all the ingredients sum up to a meager 1 out of 10.

Girls might want to watch this because they rarely get to see full frontal male in cinemas.… Expand

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BrianMcCriticAug 14, 2013

This film fails because the story in pointless and the acting is awful. Basically what we get is a meandering story with a bunch of sex scenes mixed in. For soft core porn this acting might be good, but in the world of mainstream filmThis film fails because the story in pointless and the acting is awful. Basically what we get is a meandering story with a bunch of sex scenes mixed in. For soft core porn this acting might be good, but in the world of mainstream film making this acting is cringe worthy. F… Expand

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