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I appreciate independent movies that go against the conventional Hollywood grain but this movie just did not do it for me.

THE GOOD: -production and cinematography are well done and the camera shots are excellent.

-The acting is very good, especially from the lead character.

Now for the bad- the movie felt like it was trying way too hard to be something unique and it devolved into a pretentious, nonsensical mess. I was left with too many questions and there were a lot of plot holes. I can appreciate a movie that doesn't spoon feed the viewer everything but I have to have some kind of understanding of what's happening. This movie just left me in complete limbo. Too much of it made zero sense and that really took away from the story.

Meaningless movie. Please don't watch. Waste of 1,5 hours of our life. Malek is good but the script is no good.

Everybody, well almost everybody, needs a job. We need money, food, shelter, some gizmos, maybe get laid once in a while. This movie proves my point.

People make movies like this because they need the money, the exposure, the opportunity or just to hang in the industry. Outsiders and newbies have to break in somehow. Other people with money want to give it to people with an idea for a movie. They all come together, work for a while, money gets passed through the industry jobs and bingo! out pops … something. Maybe good, mostly mediocre, occasionally amazingly incoherent and bad.

Guess where this movie lands? Yes, thats right. Amazingly bad. But it fulfilled its deeper purpose of keeping the Industry Wheels turning. And people had jobs for a while. So I give it two stars because even crud like this keeps the industry alive.

The King has no clothes. There, I said it. Move on to something else viewers.