In terms of film making, there really isn't any negative. The photography isn't ground breaking, there are no stellar FX, no white knuckle chase scenes. But none of that is called for in this film. Other than the really bad makeup on John Cusack in some scenes, making him look like something from a community theater production, there really is nothing wrong...it's just no good.
What we do have is the story of the most psychopathic, messed up family in the history of mankind.
Not one character has a redeeming quality. No one is sympathetic. All the supporting characters, even the superficial characters are all just self-serving pathetic bottom feeders.
Long before the end of the movie you want them all to just die and go to hell.
I really can't think of what could possibly possess someone to want to make a film like this. I can't imagine what its purpose is, what its message.
In trying to find a central theme, the best I can come up with is this: There's some really f***ed up people in the world, and some of them are famous.
What we do have is the story of the most psychopathic, messed up family in the history of mankind.
Not one character has a redeeming quality. No one is sympathetic. All the supporting characters, even the superficial characters are all just self-serving pathetic bottom feeders.
Long before the end of the movie you want them all to just die and go to hell.
I really can't think of what could possibly possess someone to want to make a film like this. I can't imagine what its purpose is, what its message.
In trying to find a central theme, the best I can come up with is this: There's some really f***ed up people in the world, and some of them are famous.