Writer/director Brad Silberling ("Moonlight Mile") creates an ostensibly improvised comedy that fails to stir laughs or insight by way of its singular cult-of-personality narrative device.
Named simply "Him," Morgan Freeman plays a loose version of himself as an actor hanging out in a downtown L.A. grocery store for nascent research on a film project.
He befriends a store cashier named Scarlet (Paz Vega), and takes her on a spontaneous existential journey through his personal philosophies on health, happiness, and survival.
Okay.
While Freeman and Vega are mildly entertaining, the story is too safe to elicit anything more than a passing sense of amusement.
Rated R. 82 mins.
