Just saw the movie at the LA Film Festival, had no idea what to expect, and was still disappointed. It starts off well enough with an engaging and entertaining soliloquy by the Cleaner (Shirly Henderson), but she quickly proves to be the best and most underused aspect of the film. If you've got this far looking for info on the film, you know what it's about, so I'm not going to do a summary. But I will tell you that the rhyming couplets are a distraction from the story. I found that the rhyming couplets did nothing to complement the story, only convolute it. They didn't seem to serve a purpose. Add to that way too much time spend just watching people sit and stare into space as music plays, a seemingly endless monologue from a dying character I know and care nothing about (which also describes every character in this movie, oddly enough), and a story that I simply couldn't give a rat's ass about, and you've got an hour and half of a painful movie to sit through. The movie feels much longer than it is, and probably should have been a short film. The gimmick of verse wears off quickly, and a lot of time could have been cut out.
Review of Yes
