the kind thing that one can say about this film be thank god it not any longer . don not get me wrong . it be an ingenious idea $ 2 mm home movie and highly improvised and fine director in steven soderberg and a very talented cast and complex movie within movie ( within movie a the last shot show ) structure but the result be far less than the sum of it part . it a dirty patch on the bootsoles of all involve comparable only to spielberg ai which be until i watch full frontal the bad film by a talented director i have ever see . i would not bother reprise what pass for a plot . suffice it to say that the film cover 24 hour and and feel longer . it rather like be trap watch the home movie of a group of very artsy and very neurotic and very self center and and ultimately very boring people . if i be to single out one aspect that be particularly like fingernail on the blackboard and it be catherine keener a lee . i must say that it probably a pretty good piece of act and since lee be every man nightmare needy and self center and manipulative and cruel ( her office behavior would get her fire at any decent firm of course the character be an hr person and and so there be a drop of reality there ) and and completely loathsome . she make any woody allen neurotic look like the poster child for mental health . it probably not an unrealistic portrait of a certain kind of woman . the question be and do you want to spend even 101 minute with her . i decide to watch this base on favorable buzz i have hear . learn from my error . avoid at all cost . this be 101 minute of mind numbingly self center hollywood masturbation and without a single relieving touch of charm or humor . i hope that mr. soderberg have the grace to blush when this leaden turkey be mention .