Every so often, an actor will step forward and decide that
they want to become a director and make their own movie. This can sometimes
lead to great things: Clint Eastwood has had a very prolific and
critically-praised track record of directorial efforts over the last decade or
so and Ben Affleck made a major comeback in Hollywood with films like The Town
and Argo. However, it can also lead to rather disastrous things: William
Shatner made a dog’s breakfast out of Star Trek V, Eddie Murphy’s Harlem Nights
is one of his many cinematic punchlines, and the less said about the
brain-melting confusion that is Crispin Glover’s What Is It?, the better. Today’s
film is the directorial debut of love-him-or-hate-him actor Russell Crowe.