I can see why some people love this. But there's really no excuse for casting non-actors in significant roles who are below average -- not below average for actors, mind you, but below average for human beings. I mean, the average person can fake pretend to be upset or sad in order to fake out a friend ... but the actors tasked with communicating the danger of the situation in the opening scenes are just *reading their lines.* So you not only have to love barely coherent gonzo -- and I'm very much a fan of that -- but you also have to enjoy bad, *flat* acting, presumably for its camp value. (Note that bad, *over-the-top acting* can actually work, because the characters are at least expressing their emotions.)
There's even less excuse for spending 400,000 euros but not bothering to get all the ADR (studio-dubbed speech) in synch. That, and the flat acting, just screams "amateur" to my brain. I lasted 25 minutes.
There's even less excuse for spending 400,000 euros but not bothering to get all the ADR (studio-dubbed speech) in synch. That, and the flat acting, just screams "amateur" to my brain. I lasted 25 minutes.