Sitting in the director's chair, Sean Penn fumbles around with his own script in the clumsily executed drama The Crossing Guard.
Penn can't decide if this is a straight-faced drama or an artsy independent film and in turn hurts the narrative flow quite a bit. To add salt to the wounds, his dialogue and dramatic arcs are so excruciatingly terrible they belong in a TV movie of the week. There were several points where I wasn't sure if it was just really, really bad humour or Penn actually wanted us to take it's aimlessly bizarre moments seriously. Even the impressive cast seems to be lost while performing a favour for their actor turned "director" friend.
1 "hilarious" bus ride out of 5
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