Peridot

Peridot is about a young street hustler in Los Angeles who develops a platonic relationship with a successful, middle-aged female writer. It isn't the worst movie I've ever seen, but the lavish praise in gushing, maximum-star online reviews cannot have come from unbiased viewers. They're all about the same length and all sound like they were written by the same person.

Everything about this movie is mediocre, and since Shayne Pax wrote, directed, produced and starred in it, he gets the credit for its mediocrity.

The story is contrived and unbelievable, the direction and cinematography are awkward, and Pax's acting--pretty much limited to soulful looks--is boring. I got really tired of looking at his big soulful blue eyes, which seemed to get freakishly bigger as the movie progressed. The other actors are a little better than he is, but they get much less screen time, and they're not enough better to lift its rating above two stars.