I've seen another one of this director's movies, "To Freedom", which was also terrible, but was pretty funny in its incompetence and plot. "Small Talk" is just a horrible slog to sit through.
This movie is impossible to enjoy unironically, because the director thinks this is a comedy. I am almost certain the script was written by AI, because the whole plot is just the same three scenes repeated over and over again. A cop interrogates the driver, we see a flashback, the cop interrogates a new suspect who turns out to be innocent. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Despite this technically being a better movie than "To Freedom", it's agonising. The two lead actors,( the driver and the detective), are truly awful and hamming it up, but even good actors couldn't make these annoying af characters work. Remember that scene in Joker where he's laughing at a stand up routine, but he clearly doesn't understand where to laugh, or how jokes work? Imagine that, but instead of a deranged clown, it's a terrible movie made by a hack.
This reminds me of when Tyler Perry tries to make comedic films, although tbh, this director probably shows more competency in their directing than Perry does in his films.
The sound track is awful, so many lines have the wrong EMphaSIS on the wrong syLLABles, and there's sometimes weird sound effects that are almost certainly the editor accidentally leaving spare sound effects in the Final Cut Pro timeline.
Just an embarrassment. Don't watch. Even if you want a so-bad-it's-good-movie. This isn't it. This is "Going Overboard" or "Joe dirt 2" level unbearable.
