Tribeca - The Good Guy
Shallow comedy/morality play movie set here in New York. The main character is a big-shot at a Wall Street trading desk with a lovely girlfriend, but who may or may not be still carrying things on with an ex. Into this mix is thrown the new guy at the office (the titular good guy), a Jane Austin reading computer geek fresh out of the Air Force. Love, betrayal, and anal sex jokes abound. The movie paints it characters with broad swathes of stereotypes and none of them ever rise above the trite and predictable. Ostensibly that is probably the point of the movie—these people are just living the stereotypes even as they think they’re better than they are. But it is hard to appreciate the rather heavy-handed nature of this film after seeing so many more deft comedies earlier in the week. Look, this isn’t a bad film. It is nicely diverting in a somewhat bland way and wasn’t a bad palette cleanser after the emotional impact of Departures. It just doesn’t stack-up so well to its competition. Three out of five for being average and nothing more.