This is a tedious 94 minutes of showboating Mr Lolli's change from a lumpy fat guy, and a self-proclaimed real estate mogul, to being on a stage in a small-time, low level physique show (in which everyone is his category was named "the winner").
Clearly, this man lost a lot of weight and built his body to something quite different to what it was before. That is all quite fine. But for the viewer, there is very little in the way of details of how he did what he did and what he had to go through, day in, day out, week in week out, month in month out.
And apart from a couple of sad events that occurred during his transformation, there isn't any footage of him struggling, of giving up, of getting despondent/dispirited/demotivated or tired, or of being unable to continue when working out. There is no mention of any issues with giving up the crap food he was eating, or how he felt, day in day out.
Then there are these numerous and pointless few seconds shots of him saying "Today is (enter date)" blah blah blah - what exactly is the point of showing the viewer that Mr director? In 9-10 months, we learned very little of what Mr Lolli went through to transform his body, but we saw lots of footage of biceps flexing, irritating stomach showing (by Mr Lolli and from one of his trainers, who is highly irritating and clearly in love with himself), and lots of footage of him doing various exercises, but none of him struggling, or in pain, or also, how much money he had to spend for all that he chose to do and that he lavished on all the people involved with him, which looks like many thousands of dollars, once it is all added up.
And of course, Mr Lolli is not working, so he doesn't have that aspect to deal with, unlike 95% of other people.
It seems that Mr Lolli didn't want to show any aspects of his journey that don't make him look good or that he didn't have to fight (win) over. Indeed, this a naked self-promotion for Mr A. Lolli, masquerading as a documentary, and which shows no failures of Mr Lolli, or any issues that face a large percentage of the population who are in similar positions to Mr Lolli, but who are not like him and do not have the resources he does.
There is also just too much footage of pointless scenes, of highly obtrusive music, flashy lights, etc., which just adds to the off putting message of this unhelpful and waste of hard disk space.
The various glaring omissions are quite significant, because glossing over numerous and complex issues, including the mental/emotional aspects that plague/frequent many of those who seek to lose weight or get fit, are very difficult barriers to overcome and Mr Lolli's 'look at how great I am" advertorial does zero for such people.
This is just an advert for how great Mr Lolli is. But we don't know what he actually went through to get from where he was to where he ended up.
