5-25-77 (2008)
4/10
Self-indulgent and amateurish
15 April 2023
Very disappointed. High-school play level acting: most of the principal characters just shout their lines. Writing is all over the place: no overall narrative arc, points that should have been climactic were flat, pacing is nonsensical. More than anything, though, it is difficult to imagine why anyone other than the writer-director-subject would have the least interest in the story. The main character, who is supposed to be a frustrated genius, comes across as a self absorbed mouth-breather.

I know that this film is twenty-five years in the making. It's a pity that the filmmaker's talent and skills didn't match his persistence.
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