The only real-life situations the movie evokes vividly are the circumstances of its own production: underrehearsed actors in hastily staged scenes speaking page after page of awkward expository dialogue.
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06/12/03
Controlled Chaos (2003)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:0
Rotten:8
Average Rating:2.8/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Oct 10, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Written and directed by Azita Zendel, the former assistant to Oliver Stone, the movie is about an assistant to a famous director.
Reviews for Controlled Chaos
1 - 8 (sorted by critic A-Z)
Apparently Zendel was too busy noting Stone's eccentricities to learn anything about directing.
06/06/03
Often bumpy, naïve and erratically acted, static just where Mr. Stone's work, whatever you may think of it, is undeniably energetic.
06/05/03
Top CriticThough professionally produced on a micro-budget, Azita Zendel's ambitious writing-directing debut is undermined by an awkward script and some very amateurish acting.
06/05/03
Plays like a bad daytime soap opera.
06/05/03
Top CriticIt's hard to tell whether film school grad Zendel thought she was crafting a new-millennium Sunset Boulevard, but what results is more like the cultish morass of Showgirls in its camp dramatization of a poisonous entertainment milieu.
06/05/03
Top CriticThe story proper is, unfortunately, all over the map, and further hampered by the constraints of its means. But in newcomer Amy Blomquist, director Zendel has plucked a winner.
06/16/03
A film that is too often merely tedious.
06/12/03
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