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Nov 17, 2018LAUREL EVERS rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
A few reviewers say great things. One even called it "spellbinding." This person is a lying sack of crap. Yes, it is about 4 hours long, and so might seem a tedious engagement. Well, Lawrence of Arabia was about 4 hours long. Siberiande, a Russian epic, also very long. Both of these films I found very stimulating and massively enjoyable. This thing, Happy Hour, is sadly just as boring as it might seem to be. Truthfully, I only watched the first two hours. Well, I waded, slogged through. Fine acting, high production quality. But absolutely ZIP of an engaging story line. No Dynamic arc at all. Nothing to say. No point. A waste. Now, some slick hipster is bound to say, "But you weren't patient enough to get to the substantive message in the third hour!" No, I wasn't. And many great films have a long set-up arc. 2 hours is too much of my wasted time, and the characters, while cute and charming... well, even cute and charming gets damn tired after two hours of NOTHING ELSE.