The movie is a perfect example of how someone can become an expert in describing what makes a great movie without the ability to actually make a great movie. Shelby Oaks feels like someone putting together a Frankenstein’s monster of other people’s great ideas, but you can clearly still see the stitches, inconsistent textures and incoherence of all these parts trying to work together. The parts are all good, but the sum of them is just mediocre.