In an attempt to be 'groundbreaking' and add the artistic element of allowing the actors to develop (or not) their characters as they saw fit and to work without a script, the director fails miserably. What emerges is a disjointed collage of meaningless action that is impossible to follow in any real narrative sense or direction. This is the cinematic equivalent of a senseless diatribe. The film was, in a word, pointless.
shareNot a big fan of Mike Leigh, John Cassavetes, Wong Kar-Wai and Lars von Trier then, I take it? Or do you just object to Boll's use of improvisation.
This type of approach, (and any other), can work and work very well. It can also, as can traditional narrative styling, fail. In this case it fails. It produced only a series of disjointed scenes that, with the notable exception of the closing scene, don't even qualify as vignettes. IMO, just a poorly executed film.
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