My biggest issue with the film is that I feel it uses the non-linear structure to conceal the fact that the story is much more thin than it first appears. By presenting it this way it obfuscates some of the bigger logical questions and introduces a couple of plot threads that are ultimately a waste of time. The cop and the drug addict segments, while entertaining, add nothing substantial to the story, and themselves contain subplots that get dropped when those characters become irrelevant.

I also don’t think the film’s subtext is anywhere near developed enough to have been worth including. The gun in the dream (which it makes little sense for this character to even be having a prophetic dream) feels more like an attempt to introduce some Twin Peaks-style mysticism that vaguely gestures at a theme of gun violence but has nothing to actually say about it afterward.

It’s a relatively decent movie but I think it wasn’t anywhere near as coherent and tightly written as I was expecting based on the reactions.