Smart People

Release Year: 2008
Review: Smart People is a film about a college professor who is too self absorbed and pompous to make any sort of connection to his students, girlfriend, family or anyone else. The film takes a decidedly depressing tone and is relentless in it's onslaught of bleakness. There was nothing new in its approach or plot and the execution left me with the feeling that this was a cheaper knockoff of similar 'indie' films. There is scarce character progression of a person who is so miserable that it drags the entire film down. There is not much to the film. It starts of bleak, it remains depressing and at the last second tries to pull up from its nose dive into despair, but comes up woefully short.
Rating: 2/5