The actors have partial chemistry and gives mixed performances - ranging from right out bad to really good. The movie is built as a classic romcom but never develops that way, which means it should be a comedy but the builds and finishes does not strike well and ends up with a couple of forced laughs with and at it.
The potential was there, the cast was good aswell, the style could have worked well enough. Script and direction was probably the weakpoint for the comedic side.
There is one strongpoint that brought it up from a 4 to a 6 for me; and it's regarding the Aristotle quotes (you really need to pay attention to the first one) and view the movie with it in mind. The movie persuades you to a life without meaning, unless you take a step back and think it over.
This is displayed amongst other times when he has just passed rock bottom in the hopistal and is passed a phone to view his daughter in a show that he missed, he focuses on that he missed it and the consequences of that instead of noticing that his daughter has gotten a leading part.
If you take a step back and think over the movie you might find a dean "Wurtz" who speaks greek and is hostile towards a person from Michael Fisk's youth who formed a lifelong bond with him stands out. All is not what it seems, "I know one thing, that i know nothing" becomes irony redefined if you picked up on it.
RANT: If you do NOT pick up on that it's a blue pill claiming that life has no meaning, no answers can be found as everything is in a state of change. As most know that is quasi (just like the classic - there can be no objective truth because every notion is subjectively interpreted by humans from different perspectives before it's conveyed), everything changes in different paces - relating to something that changes slowly rather than rapidly makes you more accurate.
So basically you will be left sitting without an answer and with a quasi bs philopsophy a la does a tree make a sound when it falls if no one is there to hear it? Currently know as the infamous Schrödinger's cat (what we know is irrelevant - it has either happened or not happened, if it has; a gives b and look we've established basic deducive reasoning - it's only in theory you can allude to induction not being a correct measure of a future action - until the first outcome has been established, then it's a numbers game).
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