steven soderbergh be a talented director and and i respect his decision to do a low budget picture and but this movie do not do it for me . i be a firm believer that visuals take a back seat to script and when it come to make a good movie . you can shoot a feature length movie on a home video camera with bad lighting and and it can still be good as long a the script be well write and the character be engage . in this case and the character aren not engage . first off and it hard to make an interesting film about wealthy hollywood type . it good to make movie about ordinary people and with whom the audience can relate . i just felt distant from these character and and i find it hard to get wrap up in their life . the director throw the audience a couple of curve ball and but they come off a more pretentious than nifty . the film strong point lie in it concept and but the execution be poor . i like the idea of an ensemble of a list actor work for little money and and not have the luxury of trailer or craft service . the ensemble cast of popular film and tv actor be definitely talented and but good acting can not save bad material . one of the reason why i be interested in see the movie be because i hear that all the dialogue be improvise by the actor . well and either i heard wrong or i be lie to and because in the dvd commentary ( which be very good and by the way ) soderbergh explain that only the scene between nicky katt and enrico colantoni be heavily improvise . if you want to see a good film that use a similar style of filmmaking in a more successful way and watch mike figgis timecode . that film be all improvised and shot on video in real time . in that case and the experiment be a success . i be not a big fan of experimental film in general and because in most case the director be simply be self indulgent and pass their work off as high art and simply because theyre be different ( or revolutionary and a the more pretentious director phrase it ) . hell and make a whole movie that center on an hour and 30 minute of a fat slob watch tv be something different and but who would watch it . there nothing wrong with be artistic in the process of make a film and but you must make the material at least somewhat interesting to the audience or it simply cinematic masturbation . there be more self indulgent film out there than full frontal and but this just wasn not my cup of tea . if the script be good and i wouldn not even notice the poor visual quality and but since it wasn not and i be able to notice it and a a result it hamper the film . my score represent 4 ( out of 10 ) .