This movie had the potential to be really good. Good cast, well acted and directed, sincere and realistic portrait of real life. It's the writing that ultimately fails it. It wants to go somewhere. The audience thinks it's going somewhere. But after 90 minutes you begin to fear it's not going anywhere. And sadly it doesn't. It completely loses any purpose or direction. Very odd, and ultimately disappointing if you're following along and engaged with the characters. Because it's so damn good in terms of the meaning and purpose that it purports in the first hour. It's as if the writer either got tired of it and bailed, or forgot about it and someone else picked it up - the director, who's hit or miss so far in her catalog - sometimes stellar and sometimes not so much - ended up writing the screenplay but just didn't know what it was about, nor where to go with it; even though WE the audience could see very clearly where it could go if it were going to be a great or even good film. It just meanders to a slow dead stop and a sadly far too typical and played out Hollywood movie ending. SO disappointed. YET I am still rating it slightly higher due to the fact that it's a real story with real people and an authentically sincere attempt to transcend the garbage of 99% of what's out there right now. It's worth seeing. Just prepare to be disappointed with the last 20 minutes.
Review of The Land of Steady Habits
