Ok. This is a short review because I do not have much to say about. I mean what is the movie about? What genre is it? Tommy Wiseau labels it as a dark comedy but it is label a romantic drama. Well, there is nothing romantic about it and there is nothing too dramatic about the plot because the dialogue ruins the whole movie. But, more about my criticisms later. All I can say that this is a movie that you can have a fun time laughing at with fellow friends or cinephiles or be bored to death. The only comment I can say is I have seen worse movies than this.
Johnny (Tommy Wiseau) is a successful investment banker (I did not know what his job was in the movie until I looked it up) living in a townhouse with his fiancée, Lisa (Juliette Danielle). However, Lisa has become bored with Johnny as he has become so predictable. Then, she decides to have a secret affair with Mark (Greg Sestero), Johnny's best friend. As the wedding date approaches and Johnny's promotion has been denied, Lisa becomes a sneaky, cruel person to falsify her truth about Johnny to her family and friends. Johnny discovers this and afterwards, he installs a tape recorder to their phone to find out who her lover is.
Another person who lusting after Lisa is a young student named Denny (Philip Haldimann), whom Johnny supports financially. He confesses to Johnny regarding his lust but he understands it. Then, Johnny goes to Peter (Kyle Vogt), his psychologist friend to discuss Lisa as Peter alternates, defending and labeling Lisa as a sociopath. Marks tries an attempt trying to murder Peter.
Ok, here it goes. This is a wildly incoherent, repetitive movie that goes nowhere with its story and it is laughably bad. The drama is one-dimensional with a love triangle that is so boring, the sex scenes are awful and there is a subplot involving Denny that comes for a few minutes and goes away forever. (I'm mainly talking about that drug dealing scene that probably was the best acted scene in the movie.) The dialogue is repetitive as they keep hammering how people are suppose to be feeling and how characters being labeled like the "best friend" or "being in love with Johnny" or "I don't love him anymore".
I cannot say that Wiseau's direction was in focus either because there are scenes that are so blurry that I felt like I was wearing worn-out 3-D glasses. Plus, what is with all the dubbing? It is so distracting. And, the ending, well...um, it is just again, a laughable but forced ending that felt so awkward that I was questioning why the characters were doing that kind of action in front of another character. It is not earned at all. I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt for having a good time watching this horrible mess and that one scene of good acting. But, this movie falls into the category of "it is so bad that you have to see to believe" but with friends.
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