Erin-28 Review of Haiku Tunnel

Haiku Tunnel (2001)

This was quite possibly the least entertaining film ever.

[1/10 · 19 September 2001]

When I saw the trailer for Haiku Tunnel, I thought it looked like it would be pretty funny. So I took a friend of mine to go see it -- and had to buy him dinner afterwards to make up for my cinematic blunder. SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Any film that starts off with a voice over narration (with the exception of the great Woody Allen) telling me what I am about to see, think and feel has already taken the fun out of it for me. I like to go to a movie and figure things out for myself, not be told what I am about to see and how I should feel about it. Let me experience it myself. A lovable loser is a wonderful character - however, this loser (Josh) is far from lovable. In fact, Josh has not one redeeming quality, NOT ONE! And his boss that is supposed to be "Satan" seems like a very nice guy! And then after almost an hour they toss the fact that he's writing a novel at us? What? Where did that come from? Then, he starts writing this novel on Post-It Notes and sticking them all over himself (which I guess was supposed to be funny) but later on he says he started the novel at his last temp job - which one is it? Oh, and another thing - IT IS NOT FUNNY! There is not one laugh out loud moment in this film! Several members of the audience got up and left mid way through! The rest of us stayed and moaned and groaned to one another about how truly terrible it was! The story was weak, the characters were underdeveloped and unlikeable and I don't know who backed this film, but they should be ashamed of themselves because it is quite possibly the worst excuse for a film that I have ever seen! Do yourself a favor and don't go see it. Don't rent it. Don't watch it on the Sundance Channel, if it happens to be on a plane, save yourself the headset rental. It is pure torture.