Review of Anesthesia (2016) by Martin A — 13 Apr 2017

A brilliant swing 'n' a miss -- most of it 5 stars, but with a 2 star ending that reduced it to 4. The problem being that, while writer/director Tim Blake Nelson and his incredible cast have crafted a series of fascinating vignettes that all effectively say "life sucks!" in their own different way (tell us about it!), they don't ultimately interconnect well and strongly enough to create a coherent whole, as I found 'Crash' to be -- a far more successful 'jigsaw puzzle' movie, despite everyone's best efforts in this valiant attempt.

So you're waiting...... waiting.... waiting for all the threads to get cleverly pulled together, and suddenly the movie ends, causing you to go (or at least I did) : "WTF?!". What a shame.