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Review:
 Sometimes
getting over a long affair can take as long as the affair itself.
Syd(Chris Evans) and London(Jessica Biel) had broken up months
before, and he's still pining for her. Then he learns that she's
moving to LA with her new boyfriend, he goes ballistic.
This is the stuff of theater, not movies in general, and had it
been a stage play, like it seems to have been, it would have gone
on really nicely with a single, cheaply made set. But it is not,
so most of the action takes place in one giant, very expensive
bathroom.
Syd has just gotten lots of coke from a guy named Bateman(Jason
Statham) and then convinces him to go to London's going away
party, and help him crash it.
Mallory(Joy Bryant), the barmaid who's still good friends with
Sid, didn't know that he was on the “must to avoid” list,
something Becca(Isla Fisher), who was throwing the soiree, thought
she had made quite clear. So we have the gate-crash and our
protagonists begin hiding out in the bathroom, where they're
visited by Mallory and Maya(Kelli Garner), who's looking for some
promised blow.
In the meantime we have long-winded conversation interrupted by
flashbacks of Syd and London falling in love and breaking up. This
is as long-winded a film as I've seen since “My Dinner with Andre”
and while it shouldn't work, it does.
Eric Lurio
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