Ralphie (Jesse Eisenberg) is a rideshare driver struggling to get by especially with his girlfriend Sal (Odessa Young) being pregnant. His small world is getting squeezed. His friend introduces him to a men's group led by Dad Dan (Adrien Brody).
This is a mix of Fight Club and Falling Down. At least, it has aspiration to be like those movies. I don't know anything about filmmaker John Trengove. From only this movie, I get a sense that he's a man with ideas. Maybe he needs work to make them into good movies. This is very slow and somewhat tiring. I like Eisenberg but this character has a wall around him. He's playing the quiet guy ready to explode. Even the naked Santa cannot shake me from the doldrums. I still don't know if that's a hallucination. It may be his conflicted sexuality. The gay sex is unexpected, but the gay panic is not. The filmmaker is trying to say something, but he bulldozes whatever construction he had made.
This is a mix of Fight Club and Falling Down. At least, it has aspiration to be like those movies. I don't know anything about filmmaker John Trengove. From only this movie, I get a sense that he's a man with ideas. Maybe he needs work to make them into good movies. This is very slow and somewhat tiring. I like Eisenberg but this character has a wall around him. He's playing the quiet guy ready to explode. Even the naked Santa cannot shake me from the doldrums. I still don't know if that's a hallucination. It may be his conflicted sexuality. The gay sex is unexpected, but the gay panic is not. The filmmaker is trying to say something, but he bulldozes whatever construction he had made.