The Black Tulip

I should have heeded my own red-flag warning and not wasted my time on this movie. What's the red flag? The star of the movie is also the writer and the director. The end result of such a troika is usually little more than blatant ego gratification, and this movie doesn't fail to fulfill that goal.

In addition to the glorification of the main character, seemingly unrelated characters and scenes pop in and out, with little or no background or transition. Maybe it all would have been united into a cohesive story by the time it painfully dragged itself to a conclusion, but I shut it down after 90 minutes and never had the benefit of whatever that conclusion might have been. And couldn't care less, BTW.

It's unfortunate that IMDb doesn't have a way to require reviewers to disclose their financial association with the film that they are reviewing. If such disclosures were possible, it's likely that many 10-star reviewers would be flagged as shills. And that includes the 10-star reviewers of The Black Tulip.