There are nice views of Sydney and the characters aren't overly ocker like they tend to be in some Aussie films. Those are the positive things I have to say about this movie.
Any Questions for Ben is tedious, to put it simply. It's a story of a wealthy, successful "27 year old" (looks late '30s at least), and his little mid-life crisis. Similar in some ways to "Bliss", but as if it was written by a marketing executive. None of the characters except for Ben have any depth or reality, little of the dialogue really fits their personalities or the situations, and few of the actors are convincing in their roles apart for Lachy Hulme as Ben's friend Sam, who was pretty believable as his character.
I was astounded by the obvious expense on show for such a limited story- top tier sports cars, locations galore, extras, helicopter shots all over the place, and last but not least all the music, a lot of it big hit songs. And that was another one of the issues: Massive hit songs like Time of the Season by the Zombies simply wasted on boring reaction shots. There was such an obvious attempt to add depth and feeling to very empty scenes with iconic songs that the emptiness of the scene was highlighted rather than disguised.
There were some good ingredients here and a lot of obvious quality film making skill, but the writing was just so underdone and superficial.
Any Questions for Ben is tedious, to put it simply. It's a story of a wealthy, successful "27 year old" (looks late '30s at least), and his little mid-life crisis. Similar in some ways to "Bliss", but as if it was written by a marketing executive. None of the characters except for Ben have any depth or reality, little of the dialogue really fits their personalities or the situations, and few of the actors are convincing in their roles apart for Lachy Hulme as Ben's friend Sam, who was pretty believable as his character.
I was astounded by the obvious expense on show for such a limited story- top tier sports cars, locations galore, extras, helicopter shots all over the place, and last but not least all the music, a lot of it big hit songs. And that was another one of the issues: Massive hit songs like Time of the Season by the Zombies simply wasted on boring reaction shots. There was such an obvious attempt to add depth and feeling to very empty scenes with iconic songs that the emptiness of the scene was highlighted rather than disguised.
There were some good ingredients here and a lot of obvious quality film making skill, but the writing was just so underdone and superficial.