Here is a terribly meagre experience from writer-director Rodrigo García, a silly, pointless movie which never delivers on its promises of drama and comedy and contains not a single funny or believable moment. As a filmic meal, it is pretty much entirely without nutritional or calorific value.
Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke play Raymond and Ray, half-brothers who had lost touch with each other. One is in a boring office job, the other is a construction worker who has abandoned his talent as a jazz musician – both are losers. Their father was an abusive and neglectful bully who gave them the same name out of whimsical spite and, when this much-loathed man dies, they receive an invitation via his lawyer to attend the funeral. There is money for them in his will, on the condition that they dig his grave personally, with specially provided shovels. Is the old villain messing with their heads one last time?
