Fran Lebowitz was once asked for advice by a young writer. She
replied that the story of your life would not make a good book.
Don't even try. She could have added that if the story of your
life runs over 2600 pages, something is very wrong with your
storytelling.
This lesson has been breached far too many times over the
years, with results typically as uninteresting as this film.
Despite a good cast (Michael Douglas, Frances McDormand, Robert
Downey, Jr and Tobey Maguire), this movie runs in far too many
directions to be accessable, or even coherent. Plots and
characters drop out of the film for a solid 30 minutes at a
stretch, and we are presented with far too many unlikely
resolutions in the last 15 minutes. The acting is solid, but does
not save this film. 1 1/2 planets out of 4.
