This movie would’ve been a 4.5 if they’d ended it 15 minutes early. There was so much I liked about it, genuinely. The ending was such bullshit.
One thing I found baffling though was the director’s bizarre fixation on undercutting all the emotionally-weighty moments by splicing in the fucking danceboy fondling himself with a dead-eyed expression. It’s like you can’t take your own work seriously at all. And this film has so much full-frontal male nudity, I genuinely can’t fathom…

Jake Gyllenhal is completely ill-fitted for this role and entirely unbelievable. The writing is poor with marvel-style quippy dialogue, the characters are hollow, and it’s neither  campy nor homoerotic enough to justify how bad it is. This whole project seems like some dude with too much power tried to see just how much they could inflate their budget and punish Jake Gyllenhal’s body before anybody told him “no”. You should skip this movie.
EDIT: Turns out that ‘dude’ was the…