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Waiting – Unrated & Raw

 

Picture:   C+     Sound: B-     Extras: C-     Film: C-

 

 

Some films want to be bad and they know it, obnoxious and outrageous to no end.  This has been especially true with the latest grossout cycle of films and Waiting (2005) is a later entry in the now-declining cycle.  Ryan Reynolds, who keeps doing mostly awful work until Warner can get him into The Flash feature film that is taking forever to get going, he is stuck doing junk like this and Just Friends.  This will go over as one of the biggest failures.

 

He is among a cast of new actors playing servers in a corporate chain restaurant where the workers are underpaid, overworked and very unhappy.  They have self-hate, act goofy and love to contaminate the food of who they judge to be ignorant customers.  The film is sold as a grossout film over “something wrong with the food” and that could be the name of a current subgenre.  The jokes are unfunny, though the film thinks they are, the script tired and actors wasted.  The only reason this is not worse is because it is amazing how the film makes the wrong choices at every turn.  It has not been a big hit, even among its intended target audience and even ends with a Rap song, one of the worst in the history of the genre.

 

The 1.78 X 1/16 X 9 anamorphically enhanced image is strange and this film has had a history of being odd looking.  Definition is a problem, the colors are a little off and the whole thing looks on the cheap side.  The Dolby Digital 5.1 sound is not bad, but most of this is bad music and bad jokes.  Oddest of all are the extras, which are spread over two DVDs when one could have fit all this.  I guess Lionsgate expects this to play on cheaper DVD players.  The film is repeated in its entirety on DVD 2 with the audio commentary by writer/director Rob McKittrick and co-producer Jeff Balis includes Telestrator markings on the screen as if they were talking about a football game’s play.  This could have been done on DVD 1, but the studio decided not to trust the format, because this version makes the film go on even longer (!!!) as they pause the film to discuss it!!!  Several featurettes, trailers for this and other Lionsgate titles and some outtakes/deleted scenes round out the set.  Don’t “wait” on this one.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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