The one thing worse than jazz music are comedies that just aren't fun or funny to watch.

It isn't all that hard to see what this movie was trying to achieve but it also isn't hard to see that it completely failed at it. Aside from its comedy, the problem with this movie is that it feels far too disjointed. It was trying to be a quirky comedy, featuring many different characters, each with their own individual story lines, all connected through Vincent D'Onofrio's pawn shop. That at least was what the movie was trying to do...

But in fact, none of the story lines ever feel connected though. It instead feels like a whole bunch of different segments, involving random characters, doing some very random and stupid stuff, that the movie expects you to laugh at. As a matter of fact, every segment feels like it got written by a completely different writer, taking on a different tone and approach. They feel that disconnected from each other but weird thing however is that the entire movie got written by one and the same person. Sorry Adam Minarovich! I'm just not a fan I guess. None of the story lines ever come together effectively and it all feels far too random and pointless really.

It's not just the story that's lacking but also the dialog and characters who are in it. You never get any back story, so it's hard to ever care for anyone in this movie and it doesn't help much that basically all of the characters got written as a bunch of douchebags. seriously, every character that you are supposed to like and laugh at, do some absolutely despicable things, at one point or another. It's basically a movie about douches being douches toward other douches. It draws most of its humor from this as well, which really isn't making this an either fun or funny one to watch.

Besides another thing that annoyed me about this movie was its directing approach. It's trying to be too stylish at times, with its camera position and movements. It's actually something very distracting really, ever time the movie feels the need to swirl around or focuses on achieving the next hip cut and transition. Swirly cam attacks again! I seriously hope it won't become the next big trend for movies, just like the shaky cam became a few years back. I'm actually fine with the shaky cam but I'm already fed up with the swirly cam, even though I have seen it in only just a handful of movies, as of yet.

You seriously shouldn't be fooled by this movie its impressive cast list. It probably was just a quick and simply paycheck for the big name actors involved with this, since all of them are in it for just 15 minutes, at most. I doubt that most of them even met each other on set, since they never had to actually physically work together within this movie, which perhaps is also part of the reason why this movie feels so incredibly disjointed.

It's just not funny, not clever, not original, not worth your time. This movie really doesn't work! The style, the acting, the story, the characters, the comedy, the music, nothing ever comes together! It's as if every person involved was busy trying to make their own little movie, within this movie.

4/10

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Modern horror movies aren't exactly known for their quality and true creativity and it are formulaic movies such as this one that are starting to give the genre a truly bad name!

Absolutely nothing special, original, shocking, surprising, tense, interesting or effective about this movie. I'm even somewhat reluctant to call this a horror movie. Sure, it has the typical buildup and atmosphere to it but there is far too little happening in it to consider this movie to be a full blown horror, that the lovers of the genre could enjoy.

I'm OK with slower type of genre movies, that keep building up, rather than constantly throwing disturbing or scary stuff at you but the movie needs to at least give me something to stay remotely interested in it and to make me want to keep on watching. This movie just never gives you any reason why you should keep on watching, so why should you bother with it?

So, weird things start to happen and strange ghostly figures start to appear, once a young couple and their baby move in to a remote house, somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the woods (surprise, surprise!). But what do our main characters do? Absolute nothing! They don't talk about it, they don't investigate. They do absolutely nothing to make sense of things or try to find some answers and come up with any solutions.

There where so many directions they could have taken the story in but the movie just never makes any real choices with anything. By the end of it, the movie also by far leaves more questions than answers. It hardly explains anything at all. Very annoying and disappointing, especially once you have struggled your way through this movie, only to find out that the ending isn't exactly a very rewarding one, or one that explains everything. Actually, the movie will most likely leave you confused and maybe even angry as well.

Just don't bother with this one.

3/10

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