Café (2011)

Cover for DVD release

What a pity.  I put this on while my wife was at work as my usual guilty pleasure.  Actually the same reason I watch Ghost Whisperer on Ion in the middle of the day, even if all the episodes seem the same.

This film falls pitifully short on every regard.  If you watch it because of Jennifer Love Hewitt, fail.  If you watch it for enjoyment, fail.  As a matter of fact, I can't find a good reason to watch this movie.

It's fair to claim that the original concept might have been good, and that the filmmakers look like they are trying really hard to make this a good, symbolic, life altering movie.  But it gets in the way of itself, trying to overcomplicate itself, often time for no other reason than because it can.

Even if you like bad movies, you'll hate this.  It falls smack in the middle between the third matrix in its philosophical attempts, a bad Lifetime movie in its script and execution, and reality TV in its unimaginative frame composition.