The story is about a young guy who gets caught up in circumstances that make it appear as if he is a gunman holding hostages, when in fact he's completely innocent. And don't worry, that's not a spoiler, you find out he's innocent very early on in the film.
But the film has been written so badly it is actually painful to watch. All of the characters make bad decision after bad decision, and the thought goes through your mind while watching that if everyone was like that, humanity would have wiped itself out thousands of years ago.
The director obviously had an end goal in mind that he desperately wanted to arrive at, and so the film's characters are forced to steer the story towards this goal via extreme levels of mental incompetence.
Are there any pluses in the movie? Yes, the casting was generally very good and most of the acting was great, and the director's story is sequenced well so the movie is easy to follow as a result. But no town is full of people that are as stupid as these characters are, and this ruins all of those positives I just mentioned.
Apparently the film is supposed to be a comedy, but ironically I think the only time I laughed was when the FBI agent said something like "the whole nation has been watching the stupidity with which you've allowed this situation to unfold". I nodded in agreement and laughed out loud over what is possibly the most apt line in the film.
But the film has been written so badly it is actually painful to watch. All of the characters make bad decision after bad decision, and the thought goes through your mind while watching that if everyone was like that, humanity would have wiped itself out thousands of years ago.
The director obviously had an end goal in mind that he desperately wanted to arrive at, and so the film's characters are forced to steer the story towards this goal via extreme levels of mental incompetence.
Are there any pluses in the movie? Yes, the casting was generally very good and most of the acting was great, and the director's story is sequenced well so the movie is easy to follow as a result. But no town is full of people that are as stupid as these characters are, and this ruins all of those positives I just mentioned.
Apparently the film is supposed to be a comedy, but ironically I think the only time I laughed was when the FBI agent said something like "the whole nation has been watching the stupidity with which you've allowed this situation to unfold". I nodded in agreement and laughed out loud over what is possibly the most apt line in the film.