People I Know

We watched "People I Know" this evening. Aside from being annoyed with the gray blacks I was seeing (at least in part a fault of my setup and not the mastering on the DVD) it was sad to see that even Pachino couldn't save this film. The plot twists became more silly with each new revelation, only to fall back on something approaching a likely (but anti-climactic) resolution. The style and flavor was all Hollywood superficiality, with more or less no one actually reaching a cruising altitude (either in the glossy vein or the gritty vein).