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The cinematography is great and the film has some lovely scenes, but it drags on and on. This would have been a fantastic 30 minute short film, but the scenes go on endlessly - and I know that is the point, but it doesn't make it any more enjoyable to watch. I'm glad I missed this in the cinema last week when it played here - I would have walked out. Instead, we were able to watch the film on fast forward after realizing that, three hours into the film, we had only actually gone through 45 minutes.

While the film is an interesting way to examine the subjective nature of time and how only 90 minutes can seem like eternity, it is not a great way to spend an hour and a half.

Ok, the acting is decent -- supposing you want to watch a movie with completely mundane, utterly banal and unlikeable characters. It's like watching a movie that's focused entirely on the boss from Office Space. The female lead is cold, unlikable, boring, and does not change even to the end of the film. The dad is an utter weirdo and I'm not sure-are we supposed to sympathize with him in some way? He's a creepy loser and none of his jokes are even remotely on point. The only thing I agreed with the female lead is that her dad is a complete deadbeat.

That's fine, having lead characters that are boring and unlikable, but the movie drags on and on and on and on. The scenes are incredibly long cuts and serve more to make you squirm in your seat with discomfort, or fall asleep from boredom. It took me 3 tries to finish the film. My wife walked out the first time after the first hour, and I stopped it too because it sucked, even though we had high hopes.

It is ABSOLUTELY not a comedy in any way. It is a drama, but not a very good drama. There's kind of a rule of thumb in writing: is this the most interesting part of your character's life? If not, then why don't you write about -that part- of their life and not this part?

I loved 7 Days in Hell so I'd been looking forward to this for months, but it kind of fell flat even though I laughed quite hard at the trailer itself, which in my opinion gave away the best jokes of the show.

It could be because I've seen 7 Days in Hell that the humor felt somewhat less original the second time around, as a lot of the jokes are in principle the same (e.g. the balls underwear in 7 Days --> the see-through microdick suit in this one). I think it's just too short to flesh out any of the characters properly, which was done perfectly with Kit Harington and Andy Samberg in the slightly-longer 7 Days. The Lance Armstrong 'joke' was fantastic, but overplayed.

That said, I'd definitely look forward to a "series" of these, but I'm not sure I'd recommend this one to friends like I did with 7 Days.