I do admire what director David Morgan goes for with a short black comedy about a small prank that leads in to a humongous shit storm of catastrophe and death, because I do tend to enjoy films like \u201cVery Bad Things\u201d that are about people with endlessly bad luck all because of one simple mistake. As far as premises go, \u201cAdam\u2019s Jacket\u201d can be enticing, it\u2019s just sad that it\u2019s not very watchable.<\/p>\n
Writer Morgan is so obsessed with inventing this quasi-mumblecore atmosphere with his actors talking non-stop, rapid fire, and in overlapping sentences that the film can be mind numbing. I\u2019m not totally against the concept of mumblecore only when it\u2019s done right, and \u201cAdam\u2019s Jacket\u201d doesn\u2019t make much of an argument for it here with a host of male characters who are utterly irritating to watch. After a prank on his ex to retrieve his jacket, Adam and his friends flee a club and attempt a getaway. And then hit a woman with their car.<\/p>\n
The next ten minutes is devoted to a lot of dialogue that goes nowhere, and a shooting style so murky and dark that I simply had no idea what was happening on screen eighty percent of the time.\u00a0 As for the final twist in the closer, while it is an interesting look at a person who may not have the best of luck. Stupid people like these do exist, I just simply didn\u2019t buy that something like that could happen twice in a row. While not the worst use of mumblecore I\u2019ve ever seen, \u201cAdam\u2019s Jacket\u201d is a short dark comedy that suffers from an unfocused narrative, sub-par irritating performances, and a plot that really goes nowhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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