Anesthesia

The irony of Anesthesia is that, while it uses interconnectivity as a storytelling mechanism, the characters do not really connect.

Stewart stands out because her one big scene seems so passionate and genuine. It's the only moment when "Anesthesia" seems to be working.

A grand gesture going nowhere.

A stellar cast of serious-minded players...fight a losing battle against the characters' overwritten dialogue and unlikely behavior.

A pile of incomprehensible existential gibberish by the vastly untalented actor-writer-director Tim Blake Nelson about the meaning of life in an age of technology, told in the tiresome style of multiple characters who intersect at odd angles ...

I want to recommend Nelson's film in spite of how misconceived it is simply because it asks interesting questions, albeit in some of the most banal ways imaginable.

Unfortunately, the script of Anesthesia supports the ballast of an excessive verbosity and the proposed subplots don't acquire a greater dramatic density. [Full review in Spanish]

Too often, it plays like a self-consciously high-minded riff on Crash.

A bunch of important sentences always said by characters in a serious and lavish tone, who will inexorably be submerged in their worst hardships that the script capriciously chains, in causal rather than casual way. [Full review in Spanish]

A film that, although is well acted, ends up being scattered, discursive, somewhat disoriented and never finishes articulating. [Full review in Spanish]

A puzzling and uneven tonal mess.