REPRISE takes all of it's best moments, ideas, elements, characters, editing, concept and energy and crams it into the first three minutes. From there it's a long, slow downhill ride with a few punctuation points here and there to remind us why we liked the first three minutes and giving us hope that at some point it will pick up again. During the first three minutes I thought to myself, "Self, you're so going to love this movie! The Norweigans are clever and the shots are fantastic! The lead actors (Espen Klouman-Høiner and Anders Danielsen Lie) are handsome and interesting to watch! I'm already laughing and aghast!! Where's this plot going to go? It's so exciting!! Weeeeeee!!!."
Then the movie takes nearly two hours to rehash the first three minute setup, but this time in excruciating detail and backstory (or forwardstory? It gets confusing sometimes, but that didn't matter to much, see, it's all about the feeeling of the fiiiilm...). Is Philip going to kill himself or start writing again? Is Erik a gifted writer or a hack (or both?) Is Kari going to do anything?
The visuals were dynamic and the editing was swift, but it wasn't enough to keep me interested. During the first three minutes I was super-stimulated. By the end I was just bored.
