do anyone who be make this movie and particularly the director and spare a thought for the logic of the story line . these be not mere plot hole and but plot graf and that become ever deep a we lose any sympathy for the main character and his plight . that be and if you be kind enough a viewer to valiantly ignore the fact for most of the movie that the character be either servant to the grave hole plot and or boring and unlikeable . or and in the case of downey and hannah character and apparently superfluous . in ponder the reason for existence of downey character significant screen time in the movie and i decide that either the director have like his character and unnecessarily increase his screen time ( unlikley and a the director do not change anything else about the script he actually need to ) or that his character be go to be sacrifice on the altar of bad plotting . i will leave you to guess which one it be to be . i have to keep check the cover of the dvd to confirm that this really be make by credible talent . i can not understand why robert altman would take this job . surely he have some power to pick and choose . actually and i can not understand why anyone would take this script on and except a first time director look for the experience . i suppose robert downey jr. need the money for his habit . i suppose kenneth branagh want to try a southern accent . i suppose robert duvall be only give a few page of the script and think the role in isolation sound intriguing . these be the only motivation i can see that would coerce good actor to take on role in this movie . a for robert altman and plenty of effort have go in on his part to make the movie look fantastic . i find myself notice how he have frame such and such a scene and or use the bright orange float vest in another scene to draw the eye movement and or impose a beautiful filter to create a particular mood . i do not typically notice such thing in movie and since most movie i bother to watch to the end actually engage me for reason of good story tell and interesting character with understandable motif . i watch this to the end only because some ridiculous element of optimism in myself keep look at that dvd cover and be convince that and due to the talent involve and there have to be some redeeming factor in this movie . nice direction . but that not why i watch movie .