Hits

The writer of this movie is so out of touch with reality. I couldn't even finish it. Just shows how many uneducated people are in "Hollywood."

This movie was a surprise.

From the beginning, the plot and the evolution of the story depict characters' "passions" and obsessions. Those obsessions are moving the characters away from self awareness. I understand that there is a tendency in the movie to criticise the presence and the usage of social media in our every day lives. Which may lead to the obsession of image cultivation, of a successful media persona. Everyone want a piece of the success story so bad, without analysing what success is.

Well no spoilers but the finale is simply magnificent. A psychiatrist's happy end. A real substantial drama.

A fame hungry food server will do everything to be a star even if she literally has nothing to back it up. When her father suddenly became an internet sensation and hooks up with a local hipster group, she tries to capitalize and get her 15 minutes of fame.

Not my cup of tea.

Another film that does not live up to its mocking premise. It just happens. I think the main culprit to the rather cold reception of the film is since it went for an ensemble it does not really have a strong narrative to back it up.

The characters are mocked without really giving a lot of earned moments or clear connective themes. The narrative also does not rise to its boring America premise. In addition, The 'I want a son like him scene' or just the general sense of the whatever that the Voice CD went, or the hipster movement is just plain non-sensical and never really have any kind of stakes. The film did everything all at once. By having more than one focus, none of which landed - leaves you just plainly thinking that happened without any emotional impact. It just happened. Ha.

Not recommended.

I cannot think of when I've seen so much talent squandered in a comedic movie as with David Cross's 'Hits'. But then again, I'm not convinced this was supposed to be a comedy. It is possible Cross has gotten so advanced in his irony that this 90 minute critique of the unwashed flyover idiots - and the equally gullible New York "hipsters", and, honestly, everybody but Cross himself - is actually a hybrid documentary, the actors unawares they were executing the author's cunning critique of how gullible everybody in the world is, except the Davidians, of course.

Cross has talent like Amy Sedaris, Michael Cera and the always hilarious Dave Koechner, and uses them for all of a couple scenes each, never once putting them in a situation where they can show off their comedic abilities, rather, rolling out one tired, pandering inside joke after another. In one scene where Michael Cera sells pot to a few nerdy hipsters, the comedy centers around how particular some potheads are over their specific type of grass, a hilarious set piece if you happen to be one of the hundreds of people in the world that has witnessed such absurdities.

The script is trite, cliché and one dimensional. It is so clumsy getting out of the gate that a full 45 minutes in I still had no idea what the movie was about, nor had I laughed once, nor did I care about a single character. In the end, Hits is nothing more than a blathering and pointless monologue, typical of Cross in recent years, where he criticizes the minutia of people that are not as enlightened as he and his cult. To confirm that I'm not just using hyperbole, go to Youtube and look for Cross's diatribe on Jim Belushi, all because Belushi didn't sign an autograph once. It's proof positive Cross has lost his mind, and the defense of his idiotic actions in the comments section evidence of a cult.

It seems incredible that with all the success Cross had in the past with the highly acclaimed Mr. Show and his hilarious turn in Arrested Development, he could not find a better project to put his time and efforts into than... well, most everything he's done, and now this pointless waste of time. One has to wonder if maybe it was Odenkirk that came up with all those funny ideas on Mr. Show and Cross was just in the right place at the right time. He is a funny actor, no doubt, but I'm afraid he's become twice the gullible idiot of those he finds copious time to ridicule.

Maybe the movie would have been better if David Cross was actually in it, instead being behind the scenes as writer director.

The Mr. Show star turns what feels like a few sketches into one big movie about a girl trying to be a star in this era of Reality TV shows like Teen mom which the protagonist is obsessed with and social media, while her dad is getting the attention she thinks she deserves when his complaints about a pot hole in his street goes viral and all the hipsters from Brooklyn come out to help him.

The movie was not funny, although I'm in complete agreement with the joke, it did not make me laugh one bit sorry to say.

It was cool that David Cross got all his friends like Micheal Cera to take small roles adding to the feel of it being a bunch of sketches.

Overall, I got no real satisfaction on his parody of today's version of fame