8
by darkness
Clerks 3 - The first ten minutes aren't too bad, then it goes straight in the shitter. It goes without saying it's overly self-referential, it's a Kevin Smith film after all. But this is meta Smith on steroids. A large portion of this film is essentially watching them film scenes we saw in Clerks. I guess that's one way to lazily kill time. The characters of Dante and Randall get reset in every Clerks film and we end up rehashing the same issues over again. The third act of this film goes way into WTF territory, and not in a good way. I guess if you really have nothing new to say, go for the easy movie trope. And holy fuck have I never noticed until now just how awful an actor Brian O'Halloran really is. He never had to carry so much serious, emotional dialog and scenes as he does here, and he is not up to it. It's especially bad in the scenes where he's acting against Rosario Dawson. Clerks 2 was about the slacker characters having to deal with adulthood and coming to terms with where their life is. Despite all Smith's talk of how his near death experience changed him, I have no idea what the hell this film is trying to say.
Just cut them up like regular chickens