This is by far Anderson's worst movie. Extremely slow and I never once felt invested in what was going on. For all intents and purposes this felt like a very cheap remake of The Big Lebowski. For the most part each movie was doing the same thing - trying to dissect the film noir genre with the end result being clearly only one champion - The Big Lebowski.
There just weren't any characters I cared about in this movie. The only one I found remotely interesting was Josh Brolin's character who wasn't focused on all that much but when he was on screen I wanted more of him in the movie. Phoenix's characters was dull and boring where as Bridges' character (from The Big Lebowski - essentially the same type of character) the Dude was still a pot head but was a way more interesting character. The similarities between these two movies is staggering as it how one can be much better than the other.
The only reason I kept watching this movie is because I've seen all of Anderson's movies and they are normally interesting. I kept hoping this one would get interesting but it never did. And the two and half hour run time didn't help anything. It's weird because The Master was an extremely slow paced movie but I found the whole dynamic of the two main characters interesting as well as them being interesting. This movie is slowed paced but no where near as interesting as anything else Anderson has done and I found his direction, which is slow paced as well, as not adding any type of pacing to this movie but only multiplying the slowness of everything.
Watch The Big Lebowki instead.
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