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Created Jun 22, 2013 01:01PM PST • Edited Jun 22, 2013 01:01PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Barely OK 2.0

   This movie is another reminder of the greatness of Leaving Las Vegas. Like that movie, you held out hope that somehow something unique was going to happen to improve the story line or the fate of the characters. Sadly that never happens. Los Angeles,..misplaced priorities, distorted reality and narcissism. I paid for that again, shamefully.

4. Acting

   Barely OK 2.0

   Nothing great, nothing horrible. Emma Watson getting hauled off in handcuffs as the high light, Katie Chang going car shopping and the rest will thankfully be lost to old age.

5. Male Stars Barely OK 2.0

   Israel Broussard will need to make the most of his next opportunity, and there are a few moments suggesting he will, mainly his preference for the pink high heels.

6. Female Stars Barely OK 2.0

   Katie Chang shows flickers of enough bad girl that she should get another shot somewhere, and Emma Watson with a tramp stamp was a nice change of pace.

7. Female Costars Barely OK 2.0

8. Male Costars Barely OK 2.0

10. Film

    Good 3.0

    Someone, probably Sofia Coppola deserves credit for somehow making a movie about multiple house burglaries. There were 30 people in the theater and nobody walked out. That is as much as you can say about this one.

11. Direction Good 3.0

12. Play Good 3.0

13. Music Good 3.0

14. Visuals Good 3.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Tame 1.3

    not much edge at all

17. Sex Innocent 1.0

    missed opportunity for poor old Israel.

18. Violence Gentle 1.0

    none to speak of.

19. Rudeness Salty 2.0

    yeah, when you are expected to be offended by high school cuts and comebacks, not much can be said about the edge.

21. Reality

    Glib 1.1

22. Circumstantial Glib 1.2

    California has not been natural since Reagan left.

23. Biological Natural 1.0

24. Physical Natural 1.0