that's a pretty apt review actually.

I saw this thing last night---and while it was playing i wasn't sure what I was watching. I wasn't sure if it was me or if it was the film that was confused!

I'd call it an interesting failure tho--it was watchable for the most part. It really veers wildlly in tone between being bitter and disillusioned with the more standard indie quirky townspeople. There were a handful of one liners from Coogan that made me chuckle and then immeidately wonder if I was supposed to have chuckled at them.

Steve Coogan was good--as was Olivia Thrillby---and i'd even say Hillary Duff was pretty good in her role---but her role especially didn't make any sense after the last minute plot reveal. (also why does Steve Coogan go from not wanting anything to do with her romantically to wanting to chuck it all and run away with her after falling off the same ledge his dead friend fell from??? did the fall jostle his brains or something??)

Anyways well over 24 hours later and my brain was still puzzling over what this movie was trying to say---it wasn't a bad film, but it definitely didn't cohere as much as i'd have liked it to have.  I did like how everybody in the film is ultimately let down by everybody else that they'd once looked up to....its saying something about the pitfalls of pedistal building if i had to guess.