Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on August 2012

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins, on a bridge, have to decide whether to go into Manhattan or to a family cookout in Queens. So they do both. Or rather, the filmmakers have them do both in a kind of bifurcated Sliding Doors examination of choices and fate. The Manhattan duo finds a crook’s cell phone in a cab and gets chased and shot at. The Queens pair gets engaged in a complex family drama. Either thread would have been engaging if developed, and the actors are immensely appealing, but the film is done in by its own constant and irritating reminders of how clever this half-baked existentialism is.