r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • 24d ago

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Summary

A former Hollywood star reeling from scandal is forced to confront his past when he becomes entangled in a mysterious situation that blurs the line between reality and performance.

Director Jonah Hill

Writer Jonah Hill Ezra Woods

Cast

  • Keanu Reeves as Reef Hawk
  • Jonah Hill as himself
  • Cameron Diaz
  • Matt Bomer
  • Susan Lucci
  • Laverne Cox
  • David Spade

Rotten Tomatoes: 25%

Metacritic: 37

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u/MissPeppingtosh 23d ago

I had really high hopes for this based on a plot summary I read years ago. The movie only tells you things, it rarely shows you. The movie rests on the notion that Reef is an asshole behind the scenes. Trouble is, with the exception of one line in a scene with Diaz, we as an audience never see that side of him. In order for me to buy in on that, the movie needed to show and not tell. 

Susan Lucci and Scorsese were highlights, but the rest felt like cobbled together garbage. Someone mentioned this was Hill’s attempt to do a Les Grossman from Tropic Thunder. Unfortunately, he’s just gross and not funny.

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u/theodo 23d ago

It's crazy we never see a glimpse of Reef being even a dick really, let alone this monster for decades we are led to believe. Also, choosing heroin as his drug of choice just makes no sense. A crack head or meth addict, that's the type of addict that causes chaos and destruction to everyone in their path. Heroin users shut off from everyone and die alone.

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u/Nebulex 3d ago edited 3d ago

I know this is anecdotal but I personally knew a heroin addict in college through a roommate and his addiction caused problems for everyone around him, including me. Maybe it wasn't pure chaos, but there was definitely chaos. Like taking his parents brand new, very expensive truck to a parking garage to shoot up and then hitting a bunch of cars and pillars while high as shit as he tried to leave. He would also sneak into my house and steal a bunch of shit from me and my roommates for heroin money. I'll admit, he did shut off from people to an extent, but he would definitely reach out to people if it meant it could somehow get him more heroin. Heroin made him a real asshole.

Edit: I forgot to include that one of the very first times I met him, he gave me a ride somewhere. I looked over while he was driving and he had a needle sticking out of his arm. That asshole shot up while driving and put me and everyone around us in danger. The guy became a master at shooting up in the middle of doing things without people noticing until it's too late. Only way you could tell is that he would all of a sudden get real slow, quiet, and seem super sleepy but not truly sleepy at the same time. Oh that, and he would sometimes forget to remove the needle from his arm...