Allan Tong from, exclaim.ca, offers up a different opinion to the 5-star review we saw earlier in the week.

As in Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, Kaufman employs a doppelganger for his lead character, Caden (Philip Seymour Hoffman), so that his hero can pinpoint his own failings and rise above them. This time, however, the device fails. Though Caden faithfully reconstructs entire blocks of New York inside a giant warehouse, his play-within-a-play-within-a movie uselessly repeats his surface behaviours and fails to mature his character.

Another fatal flaw is Caden himself. He starts the film as an apathetic lump then passively reacts to all that happens to him. His wife moves to Germany with her child. His second wife leaves him. Mysterious ailments plague his body. Deeply self-absorbed, Caden never initiates the action and hardly cares about anything. (Source)

Hmm. Who thinks this one will disappear from cinemas pretty quickly and then develop, at best, a minor cult following on DVD?