When you hear the word "night club", what do you envision? Most would picture smooth talking men, provocatively dressed women, good times, and interesting scenarios. However, the movie "Night Club" was the exact opposite of what you'd expect. The film was executed poorly in many aspects from bad acting, to irrelevant characters to the shoddy use of cinematic elements. The hundreds of thousands of dollars used to spawn this horrendous movie would have been better off spent on something else.
The movie opens with a man at his desk at work while he chats on the phone with his girlfriend opposed to attending to the call of a needy patient and fulfilling his duties as an orderly. He finally goes to the patient's room to find a dead body. The credits then roll as he is shown driving a hearse which is supposedly transporting the newly dead body to another location. The driving scene goes on for a good five minutes before cutting to another scene. Next, the film cuts to a scene showing the protagonist of the movie (Justin), as he opens an acceptance letter to his dream school, The University of Southern California. A black man resembling Randy Jackson runs into the frame to congratulate Justin on a job well done, and then reappears in his kitchen as Justin informs his parents of the good news. Justin's mother is excited while his father is disgruntled having to bear the burden on paying for tuition. Their financial situation seems shaky from the father's negative reaction towards his son's acceptance. He moves into his dorm despite the shoddy financial situation and befriends 2 people named Chris and Nikki. After his parents call him to let him know his dad got laid off and can't afford tuition, he gets a job. He even lands Chris and Nikki jobs too. They work together in the California Villa, a nursing home. Justin befriends an old man (a patient) named Albert who serves as his mentor on the job.
By this point in the movie it has already been a half hour or so, and that was enough for me. In this short amount of time there were just too many problems with the movie to continue forward. In the beginning, we meet a man who talks on the phone and we never see him again. He is an extraneous character. Chris and Nikki are extras as well, because they don't help progress the plot. Though Chris schools Justin to the college life, that idea isn't the main purpose of the story, so it wouldn't make a difference if they became friends or not. The story is supposedly about Justin sustaining his education by getting a job, not about learning how to party. The Randy Jackson character is an extra as well because we never see him again. He is a failed attempt at using a motif of an imaginary friend. Justin is the only person who can see him but throughout the remainder of the movie he never re appears. If the cinematic element of motif was used correctly, Randy Jackson would play a role in shaping Justin's decisions or concurring with his feelings at each phase in the movie. He isn't a consistent or helpful figure and therefore is proved to be irrelevant. Another issue with the movie was the contradiction of pay in the nursing home. Justin gets a job as an orderly and will be paid $40/hour to work at the California Villa. His father just lost his job due to a recession and he will be getting paid a whopping $40/hour?! That's insane; not to mention the boss of the Villa has informed us that they can't buy furniture for the activity room because budgets are low. How can they afford to pay Justin and his 2 buddies that rate of pay when they can't afford furniture? It just makes no sense in the context in which the movie is surrounded by. The acting in this film was horrible almost all the way around. Many lines feel forced in the film by the majority of the characters. Justin is made out to be the kind, nervous kid but he is so bad at evoking that feeling. It sounds like he's reading off a script, almost like a choppy audio book set to a video. The only passable performance was Albert, the old man. He plays an old man and he is an old man in real life, so it didn't seem like his wise personality was forced. He is also a seasoned actor, so he knows what he's doing on screen. He indeed made his role very believable. This movie should have never seen the light of day.
The movie opens with a man at his desk at work while he chats on the phone with his girlfriend opposed to attending to the call of a needy patient and fulfilling his duties as an orderly. He finally goes to the patient's room to find a dead body. The credits then roll as he is shown driving a hearse which is supposedly transporting the newly dead body to another location. The driving scene goes on for a good five minutes before cutting to another scene. Next, the film cuts to a scene showing the protagonist of the movie (Justin), as he opens an acceptance letter to his dream school, The University of Southern California. A black man resembling Randy Jackson runs into the frame to congratulate Justin on a job well done, and then reappears in his kitchen as Justin informs his parents of the good news. Justin's mother is excited while his father is disgruntled having to bear the burden on paying for tuition. Their financial situation seems shaky from the father's negative reaction towards his son's acceptance. He moves into his dorm despite the shoddy financial situation and befriends 2 people named Chris and Nikki. After his parents call him to let him know his dad got laid off and can't afford tuition, he gets a job. He even lands Chris and Nikki jobs too. They work together in the California Villa, a nursing home. Justin befriends an old man (a patient) named Albert who serves as his mentor on the job.
By this point in the movie it has already been a half hour or so, and that was enough for me. In this short amount of time there were just too many problems with the movie to continue forward. In the beginning, we meet a man who talks on the phone and we never see him again. He is an extraneous character. Chris and Nikki are extras as well, because they don't help progress the plot. Though Chris schools Justin to the college life, that idea isn't the main purpose of the story, so it wouldn't make a difference if they became friends or not. The story is supposedly about Justin sustaining his education by getting a job, not about learning how to party. The Randy Jackson character is an extra as well because we never see him again. He is a failed attempt at using a motif of an imaginary friend. Justin is the only person who can see him but throughout the remainder of the movie he never re appears. If the cinematic element of motif was used correctly, Randy Jackson would play a role in shaping Justin's decisions or concurring with his feelings at each phase in the movie. He isn't a consistent or helpful figure and therefore is proved to be irrelevant. Another issue with the movie was the contradiction of pay in the nursing home. Justin gets a job as an orderly and will be paid $40/hour to work at the California Villa. His father just lost his job due to a recession and he will be getting paid a whopping $40/hour?! That's insane; not to mention the boss of the Villa has informed us that they can't buy furniture for the activity room because budgets are low. How can they afford to pay Justin and his 2 buddies that rate of pay when they can't afford furniture? It just makes no sense in the context in which the movie is surrounded by. The acting in this film was horrible almost all the way around. Many lines feel forced in the film by the majority of the characters. Justin is made out to be the kind, nervous kid but he is so bad at evoking that feeling. It sounds like he's reading off a script, almost like a choppy audio book set to a video. The only passable performance was Albert, the old man. He plays an old man and he is an old man in real life, so it didn't seem like his wise personality was forced. He is also a seasoned actor, so he knows what he's doing on screen. He indeed made his role very believable. This movie should have never seen the light of day.