Good story, good characters and a lot of good ideas and dialogue. The problem is that BJ bites off more than he can chew. All these ideas, which are all great by the way, are so disconnected from the story that they're kind of working against each other. Basically the problem is that it's too short. It either needed more time to cash in on these ideas and the main character or have been simplified. When BJ shoots Ashton at the end it really makes no sense and feels very forced. I get that it's susposed to show how far he's come, but for a guy that has never shot a guy or killed anything, he was far too cool and calm doing it. It would have made more sense if he told Holbrook that Ashton did it and let him kill him.
And it's not good when the whole climax of the story is because of the satire. Ashton tells him what's going to happen if he releases it and that's why BJ kills him?
Also I knew Ashton was "the killer" right away, that was bad casting. Not because of his acting, he did a great job, but because why would a star like that be in one scene? And his intro kind of gave it away because you think he's going to be mean to the young girl singing and he isn't, so it throws your expectation off on who you think he is... It's an easy trick.
Then BJ deletes the whole thing and goes back home a new man? Again more time needed to be put into his character. Basically this would have been pretty good but that forced ended really messed it up.
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