This is an attempt to tell two stories on a split-screen. It's like something you'd see in film school, where the director is enamored of his own creativity and technical prowess; the actors and actresses are practicing for the TV roles they hope to land one day; and the writer is somebody's girlfriend.
The split-screen storytelling is a contrivance that might have worked if it had been used in key parts. Even if you can adjust to it, you realize early on that the two-screen conceit is being held just for the sake of it - through parts where it if anything simply clouds the story.
But it's the acting that truly puts this in the gutter. Lines, looks, motions, mannerisms all come out of the nothing - and certainly have no relationship to the flow of their conversation. There's no chemistry whatsoever between Carter & Eckhart.
I didn't see anything to make this even remotely worth watching, even on late-night TV when you have nothing else to do.
The split-screen storytelling is a contrivance that might have worked if it had been used in key parts. Even if you can adjust to it, you realize early on that the two-screen conceit is being held just for the sake of it - through parts where it if anything simply clouds the story.
But it's the acting that truly puts this in the gutter. Lines, looks, motions, mannerisms all come out of the nothing - and certainly have no relationship to the flow of their conversation. There's no chemistry whatsoever between Carter & Eckhart.
I didn't see anything to make this even remotely worth watching, even on late-night TV when you have nothing else to do.