style but no substance . not as funny a it should be . not as deep a it want to be . this be another in the genre of film about the difficulty of filmmaking . a young filmaker be hire to finish a campy 60 sci fi movie call codename representdragonfly . think barbarella and or danger diabolique . but jeremy davy be an angst ridden filmmaker . he no hack he an artist . the movie he want to make be a diary of his life . hardly original . all the character outside of jeremy davy filmmaker be as thin a rice paper . character that might be interesting and such a his father and his doppelganger and or jason schwarzmann a a hack director be introduce and then show the door without add a thing . this movie be full of eye candy but when compare to other film about filmmaker such a stardust memory or 8 half it pal in comparison . those movie be funny and provocative with well developed character . those movie have lesson that apply outsidethe movie want to be comic and campy but it just derivative and there be not one funny scene . the filmmaker describe it a a send up but what the satirical target . the actor say it an homage but i think i would rather a full length version of codename representdragonfly . coppola be clearly amuse by the setting a be evident by the visual humor of the sci fi movie within a movie . but he fail to share why we should be amuse . outside of the sci fi movie it just a mess . there be continuity error and the filmmaker choose a sci fi weapon after it already be choose . what . just because he have a scene be the filmmaker be confront by the critic complain about the lack of story and lack of a point and a scene where he admit empty cleverness do not mean that he have address those criticism . i guess if your roman coppola you can get away with make a movie about an angst ridden idealistic filmmaker who doesn not know what he want to say and so end up say nothing . in that sense it may be consider autobiograhical . i would watch it at circuit city on a wall full of tv if i have a choice . watch the 15 minute codename representdragonfly movie include on the dvd a extra and then send it back .