Review of A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013) by Bailey H — 03 Jun 2013

This movie is an amateur effort by Roman Coppola, best known for writing last year's "Moonrise Kingdom" with Wes Anderson. Its a break up "comedy" about a graphic designer trying to get over a failed relationship.

Charles Swan (Charlie Sheen) has just been left by his beautiful girlfriend, Ivana (Katheryn Winnick), and now he can't stop thinking about it. He can't recover from it and neither can he stop talking about it with his best friend (Jason Schwartzman) and his manager (Bill Murray).

Its a disappointing movie, which its sad to see because of all the great actors in it put to waste. Its self indulgent, poorly directed and the dialogue is horrendous. This Woody Allen wannabe story is full of unlikable characters and is pretty much a one note character study of one of the most dull characters I've ever seen. I didn't believe Charlie Sheen's performance for one bit, I think he's even got a chance at a Razzie award for it.

There seems to be a song in every single scene, what they don't know is that music adds to a character, but it doesn't create one. The movie would've been better off as a music video.

I hope Bill Murray sticks to Wes Anderson films. Oh! and that ending. Ugh.