Generation Um...
Writer/director Mark L. Mann makes his feature debut with this drama tracing 24 hours in the lives of three acquaintances (Keanu Reeves, Bojana Novakovic, and Adelaide Clemens) who become swept up in a whirlwind of drugs and debauchery as their future begins to look increasingly uncertain.
Director: Mark L. Mann
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Bojana Novakovic, Adelaide Clemens, Daniel Sunjata, Jake Hoffman
Director Mark L. Mann seems to be searching for the meaning in aimlessness, and in lowered expectations. But too often the narrative left me feeling the titular “um.”
Reeves is able to make such potentially silly material as this strangely compelling, but his hard work is ultimately a drop in an otherwise empty bucket.
This scrappy, draggy study in soul-crushing failure and disappointment is noteworthy primarily as a showcase for its lead actor's most quintessentially Keanu performance in years.
Playing the emotionally shut-down driver for an escort service, the actor provides what little interest there is to be found in this otherwise aimless depiction of urban alienation.
At least Keanu Reeves brings a certain muddled gravitas to the role of an escort-service driver who spends his time idling with off-duty party girls.
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