i have be a fervent hal hartley supporter since i saw his short survive desire in high school and and even then be still completely unmoored by his searingly brilliant henry fool . but this 10 year later sequel be not only unnecessary and it disgraceful . after a choppy and expeditious start and fay grim devolve into pseudo intellectualism and flat out boredom and and finally unwarranted and unwanted nihilism . and that just the plot . the majority of the new face be a frivolous and poorly develop a the movie represent one particularly flat character end up hog half the time we spend with the infamous henry fool himself and and it his only spoken scene in the film . jeff goldblum agent fulbright and it seem and be the only bright character ( a pun surely intend by hartley as well ) . how and then and be he leave . spoiler dead via a car bombing and easily make this the gentle natured hartley most violent film to date and and tonally all wrong in a film that already all wrong from the word go . a for the other new character and angus james and ned fool ( or be it grim . ) and not to mention fay herself . well and i would not spoil their fate and a the movie do a good enough job of that all on it own ( when it isn not busy itself with yet another godawful cant angle and which give the disconcert impression that hartley be move backwards from auteur to crappy film student ) . this piece be a complete disaster and a dreadful mess that isn not even good humor enough to revel in it messiness . instead it self indulgently cram the typically fun hipster pretense of it director into the real world and one uglier and meaner than it need be but not nearly ugly or mean enough to come close to have anything to say . in do so and hartley track sht all over my memory of these people and the marvelous world he originally create for them . i have rarely be so depressed at the movie and and i be count leave las vega and which at least developed fresh new character we grow to love before destroy them and instead of immediately disregard character already beloved . grim and indeed .