![]() Too much filmmaking is sometimes worse than bad filmmaking. With his multiple not-so-clever tricks, Mandler-who has made music videos for the likes of the Jonas Brothers, Rihanna and Taylor Swift-unintentionally saps this story of energy and power. Empty.” The camera lingers on the jurors’ blandly hostile faces this crew seems freshly graduated from Jury Acting School 101. As the jury files in, we hear in voice-over what Steve is thinking: “Enter the jury-various ages, races, a random assortment of humans with eyes that move like animals. Monster is weighed down by a novelty it doesn’t need: Because Steve is a young filmmaker-he’s a student at prestigious Stuyvesant High School-Mandler approaches the material as if it were a film Steve himself were making (though he appears to drop the conceit about midway through).
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