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...Hate Las Vegas Anymore" is writer/director Caveh Zahedi's homemade documentary about his road trip to Las Vegas with his estranged father and half-brother. It also offers Zahedi's attempt to prove the existence of God by simply letting the film happen without the conventional constraints of a script or even an intended plot...
Asserting, "This film is an experiment in faith," Zahedi demonstrates this belief in a higher order by filming extemporaneous situations as they unfold. But despite his film maker's constant reiteration of his belief that "What happens happens for a reason. Everything has a meaning," the neurotic and nervous director, who has often been called the Iranian-American Woody Allen, refuses to yield to Fate...
Constantly dictating the scenes in a passive-aggressive manner, Zahedi indeed resembles his Jewish counterpart as a control freak. The movie's few merits lie in Zahedi's documentary-like style, which exposes the dynamics of his relationships with his father and sibling. The method of allowing events to unfold carries potential for rendering a great film, but doesn't suit the nervous, controlling filmmaker. This ill-suited union only succeeds in begetting a drawn-out series of irritating, contrived and poorly shot scenes of a man exhibiting his warts...
...film opens on a black screen with Zahedi (Bobby) nervously asking his crew, D., Steve and Greg, who all play integral parts in this film, if they've begun rolling. As the blank screen fades into Bobby delivering a monologue, the debt to Woody Allen is evident (Allen often prefaces his movies by explaining his intent to the audience, most notably in "Annie Hall...
...wide screens there's a face-off between the two top-grossing films of the week. Casper (the Friendly Ghost) offers his doe-eyed version of mortality against the merry bloodbath that is Die Hard with a Vengeance. But over at Taco Bell, 15-year-old Christopher Zahedi will tell you he prefers the rougher stuff. "I liked the part in Pulp Fiction where the guy points a gun and says a prayer from the Bible and then kills everybody,'' he offers. "You hear the gun go brrrr. It's cool...