this be one of the bad movie i have ever see . sean penn be strand in a strange city where everybody seem to realize his problem and his struggle and and insist on be particularly mean to him and just for the sake of be mean . it be a lot like chevy chase in national lampoon vacation or griffin dunne in after hour and in the sense that we watch an incredibly hapless main character go through an incredibly terrible day and be suppose to call that entertainment . except that instead of a comedy this one be a mean and boring excuse for a thriller where everybody be weird and bad as and so the whole thing reek of tarantino or any of those awful el mariachi sequel . there be indeed several twist in the plot and but all of them be predictable and absolutely unable to make the film a little interesting . the end doesn not even try to make up for the rest of the experience . it just a dull and silly . the only good thing i can say about this film be that the cast be very good . there be lot of good acting and but the story and the overall atmosphere be so brain dead that i couldn not really enjoy the acting . i always find that oliver stone movie be excessively long wind and pretentious . now i read here at imdb that he want to make a small film that he would enjoy see a a teenager . so he be definitely a major idiot and and i will never see any of his movie again . i give it 3 star and for the acting . maybe the actor deserve more for the acting and but they also deserve a penalty for sign up such a bad script .