(...) The story is caught on camera through the point-of-view of the films idiot make-up artist Lester (Brendan Michael Coughlin), a local ADHD crazed 20-something year old who’s convinced that whenever someone holds a camera in hand they can automatically create ‘art’. His hyperactive nature gets the better of him as he truly goes all out with capturing the events that are unfolding right in front of him. If anything the movie is more of a homage to the Christopher Guest mock-docs, rather than found footage films, but in todays world, younger viewers will identify this movie as a found footage film rather than a mockumentary. As the movie begins, the first fifteen minutes I’ll admit I was rather puzzled, the editing style came off extremely amateur-ish and hyper. It’s as if this movie was cut together by an eager 14-year-old, then after those fifteen minutes, you come to the understanding that the movie is being seen through the eyes of Lester, which means this is Lester’s movie, and this is how HE would cut it, which I’ll give credit to director of the film, John Murlowski, that’s pretty damn clever. Seeing the movie through Lester’s eyes, gives the comedy a whole new meaning for it’s intended wackiness, and surfaces as comedic brilliance. (
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