6 Dynamic Laws for Success (in Life, Love & Money)

Quirky and original, and, at the same time, moderately entertaining, with uneven delivery and erratic storyline. Not every directorial decision worked, neither did every line o the script, but the effort was obvious. Because of the unnecessary shilling, score reduced to 4/10.

This movie is a gem, because it's different in a Tarantinoesque or Ethan Bros stylistic way. In B/W with flashbacks in color. It has a bit of a low-budget feel, which actually provides some character that works for it. Good casting.

A very clever story, like a Fargo. A "loser" trying to find a pot of money the location of which is encoded within a self-help book. So, the story progresses on a multiple story-lines. Finding the money requires that he improve himself along the way.

Then, apart from flashbacks, there are two story time tracks, one being current time, and the other being the prologue where we learn how we got to current, working toward intersection.

There are subtle nice touches, like the piano notes music that fits the movie tone extremely well. And, eg, a scene where two women are in a car with the camera facing them through the windshield, which is cracked, just to keep the subconscious edge.

Overall, a different quirky story that is creative and interesting, and it does a great job executing the movie it intended to be.

Because we seemingly always must compare one thing to another thing, there's an evocative slab of Joel and Ethan Coen upon which "6 Dynamic Laws For Success (In Life, Love & Money)" might arguably be built. But throughout its 90 minutes, this mostly black and white comedy crime film acquits itself as its own delightfully unique thing.

Ulysses T. Lovin (Travis Swartz) takes the audience on a treasure hunt in which the desired destination is a 2.4 million dollar jackpot in the form of a concealed-somewhere bank heist. Ulysses is no poster boy for success in life, yet he sees the cash stash as a chance to reclaim himself.

The film's creative team shows a certain fearlessness in the unique stamp that "6 Dynamic Laws..." carries with it, both in its visual presentation and in the playful nut-job fun it consistently offers throughout. The harder a movie is to define in clear and certain terms, the more it paradoxically begs for comparables so that we can box in into a corner and feel proud of ourselves when we manage to assign it a properly relatable definition. But ultimately, "6 Dynamic Laws..." triumphs because it does indeed pass muster as a specifically executed vision of its very own making.

Great story with a great mixture of rather quirky characters leads to flawless entertainment. This movie is at the top of the Indie heap along with any other movie heap.

One of the things I love about independent film is that it allows artists to experiment and explore the medium of filmmaking. This movie does that incredibly well. It was really cool specifically because the movie was very much a noir movie, classically high contrast and black and white, and then to go to the semi non-noir sections, that became color. It's this kind if specific and unusual choice that shows me I'm watching the work of an artist, not simply a technician.