Quick Change with Bill Murray - Brilliant Piece

First, even for a week night jaunt, I got a bad "word of mouth" feeling about 9 walking into the cinema. The first trailer had just started and there was no one in the theatre. For the record, this is the first time I've entered a theater after the lights had dimmed to see no one else in there since a late, late weeknight show of the excellent and under-appreciated Quick Change with Bill Murray, Gina Davis, and Randy Quaid in 1990. For those that haven't seen it, it's a brilliant piece of work, devastatingly funny-Netflix it with all speed if you haven't seen it.

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In any case, this 7:20 PM 9 showing was empty. Eventually, there was an additional patron that entered after the actual film had started, but it was not a substantial enough audience to keep me from putting up all the armrests and laying across the seats and passing gas without apology during the film. So what about 9? It was visually brilliant, striking and beautiful. The performances were excellent from Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Martin Landau and Christopher Plummer-basically excellent across the board. And the story, what little of it there is, was acceptable. However, this brief movie spends the first hour of it's 80 minute run time meandering in an obscure, esoteric world with almost no relatable frame of reference for the viewer. In my mind, classic Tim Burton in the bad way. The problem really begins for me with the lack of a solid foundation in either pure fantasy or any relatable reality.