Melvin, troublemaker extraordinaire, is living in the hurricane-battered housing projects of New Orleans, and is about to lose custody of his son.
He also has telekinetic powers, but at the moment, he uses them to impress women and to fool the public into giving him money, rather than using them for the greater good.
He's got little time to shape up fast. Will he succeed in cleaning up his act or will his powers ultimately be his downfall..........
The sole reason for me having any interest in this film is because it's directed by Nick Love, and up until this movie, his speciality has been British crime movies, usually starring Danny Dyer and involving lots of swearing and usually quite good music, so I wanted to see where he would be with this.
Well with a $990,000 budget, and a really strange genre arc, the answer is, not very far, as Love appears to lose the film at the first hurdle, and only to find its mojo literally ten minutes toward the end.
Billed as a comedy, it's depressing to say the least, as we follow Dorff and Griffin on a sub documentary style filming of debauchery, drugs, alcohol, and almost always ending with Dorff staring into the abyss.
But the films narrative relies heavily on Tranters Chronicle, but instead of showing us how dangerous a power like this could be, here, the use of its almost beyond blaise, as our hero is using it for his benefit.
It starts to pick up a little toward the end credits, but by this time, you've become as depressed as Dorff appears when he's on a comedown.
There is an idea in here somewhere, but it gets lost in translation. And heaven knows why Love chose this project, he's much better suited to Danny Dyer and Tammer Hassan swearing their noggins off.
A wasted effort, but would make a great double bill with Tranters Fantastic Four.
He also has telekinetic powers, but at the moment, he uses them to impress women and to fool the public into giving him money, rather than using them for the greater good.
He's got little time to shape up fast. Will he succeed in cleaning up his act or will his powers ultimately be his downfall..........
The sole reason for me having any interest in this film is because it's directed by Nick Love, and up until this movie, his speciality has been British crime movies, usually starring Danny Dyer and involving lots of swearing and usually quite good music, so I wanted to see where he would be with this.
Well with a $990,000 budget, and a really strange genre arc, the answer is, not very far, as Love appears to lose the film at the first hurdle, and only to find its mojo literally ten minutes toward the end.
Billed as a comedy, it's depressing to say the least, as we follow Dorff and Griffin on a sub documentary style filming of debauchery, drugs, alcohol, and almost always ending with Dorff staring into the abyss.
But the films narrative relies heavily on Tranters Chronicle, but instead of showing us how dangerous a power like this could be, here, the use of its almost beyond blaise, as our hero is using it for his benefit.
It starts to pick up a little toward the end credits, but by this time, you've become as depressed as Dorff appears when he's on a comedown.
There is an idea in here somewhere, but it gets lost in translation. And heaven knows why Love chose this project, he's much better suited to Danny Dyer and Tammer Hassan swearing their noggins off.
A wasted effort, but would make a great double bill with Tranters Fantastic Four.