permanent midnight - 5/10
You know what? Ben Stiller is possibly the worst actor alive. He's not even my most hated actor or anything. But everything I've read about him suggests that he's a huge egomaniac asshole with all kinds of disorders.. okay, whatever, right?... but it blows my mind that he's allowed to be a dick to everyone when he consistently makes shitty films.. The only thing good he's ever done was his making of Cable Guy..
He acts the same in every movie he's been in. This is not a comedy, but he acted pretty much like he does in all of his "comedies", which is to say, not funny, because he never acts "funny" in his comedies either.
Anyway, this movie is about the drug addict who made that Alf show, and is pretty much what you'd expect about this kind of stuff. Stiller is insane and sweating and writing and the direction is interesting at times (lots of jump cuts) but the movie goes nowhere and does nothing.