I'm Still Here

The irony of the title of the film I’m Still Here, is that anyone who can manage to say that in the cinema after sitting through this rubbish until the end is deserving of a medal. The only thing that would have saved this film is if it was still a mystery while you watched it as to whether you were watching a mock documentary or that Joaquin Phoenix had really gone a bit tonto. However, now that director Casey Affleck had admitted the whole thing was a hoax all you’re left with is a spectacularly unfunny experiment where the film’s most famous sequence (the interview with David Letterman) has already been viewed Ad nauseam on the internet. For those that are unaware, the film follows Phoenix as he announces his retirement from acting and decides to re-launch himself as a hip-hop artist. The fact that Phoenix and Affleck planned the whole thing to see how taken in people would be might have been fun for them at the time, but as a feature film it’s desperately lacking any sort of structure and the social comment they are trying to make is lost amongst Phoenix’s mumbling, plenty of male nudity and a defecation scene that really plumbs the depths. It’s lucky that Phoenix and Affleck have plenty of kudos in their back catalogue otherwise this would have been the ultimate career killer. What a waste of everyone’s time.

The OC Film Sting Final Verdict
Like a 5 minute video that you make with your mates that only you find funny. Or in this case, stretched to an hour and 45 minutes that no-one finds funny. Rating: 2/10.