The reason why I saw I'M STILL HERE it's because of the many cameos by at least 100 celebrities but in hindsight it was best I skipped this one.
After Joaquin Phoenix got nominated for Best Actor for WALK THE LINE he announced that he left acting and focused on rap music. Then the movie follows him and his friend Casey Affleck and the set is staged for this mockumentary. What follows is just a series of vignettes where Phoenix starts his rap career, goes in various nightclubs, behaves like an annoying jerk and the viewer will simply lose his patience.
The concept looked good. After all, it can happen to everyone to change careers at some points or after some delusions. But Phoenix was annoying and the movie seemed to last forever. Scenes of him at home screaming like he was on drugs, cursing in night clubs and a long take of his swimming in a river... seemed to last forever and bored the hell out of me. And the many cameos by Sean Penn, Jack Nicholson, Danny Glover, Bruce Willis and some others didn't added nothing because blink your eyes and they are gone.
Overall, probably the worst mockumentary that has ever been made and honestly, if it was made as a short film it would have been better. Seeing 108 minutes of Phoenix behaving like a fool is some sort of endurance contest, and sometimes I felt to give up on the movie.
After Joaquin Phoenix got nominated for Best Actor for WALK THE LINE he announced that he left acting and focused on rap music. Then the movie follows him and his friend Casey Affleck and the set is staged for this mockumentary. What follows is just a series of vignettes where Phoenix starts his rap career, goes in various nightclubs, behaves like an annoying jerk and the viewer will simply lose his patience.
The concept looked good. After all, it can happen to everyone to change careers at some points or after some delusions. But Phoenix was annoying and the movie seemed to last forever. Scenes of him at home screaming like he was on drugs, cursing in night clubs and a long take of his swimming in a river... seemed to last forever and bored the hell out of me. And the many cameos by Sean Penn, Jack Nicholson, Danny Glover, Bruce Willis and some others didn't added nothing because blink your eyes and they are gone.
Overall, probably the worst mockumentary that has ever been made and honestly, if it was made as a short film it would have been better. Seeing 108 minutes of Phoenix behaving like a fool is some sort of endurance contest, and sometimes I felt to give up on the movie.