Eric Packer, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager, crosses the city of NY in his limo to get a haircut.

All great artists, in this case, directors, have a bad work, and for me, this film is a splinter impossible to remove in Cronenberg's career.

There's no story here to follow, the dialogues are empty and sometimes pretentious, without substance that can be extracted from them, leaving the message of political and economic criticism completely distorted.

The characters have no soul, I simply couldn't connect and create empathy with them.

The photography made me scratch my head and thinking "why you did this?", I didn't see any credible reasons for using so many close-ups shots, or the sly CGI in the limo scenes.

Even Robert Patinson cannot save a scene from this film.

I'm convinced Cronenberg simply had a string of semi-conscious fever dreams and strung them together. I'm really unsure what was meant to be accomplished with this movie other than telling the audience: rich people are just like us- miserable people who are unsatisfied with their lives.

This is the worst movie I've ever seen or you will ever see. Given the IMDB word minimum and someone who reads this doubtless will be wanting to know why, let me expand: -it's BORING. SO INCREDIBLY BORING -the acting, particularly of Robert Pattinson who does his no emotion thing especially badly here

• a scene of out of nowhere of crude violence to shock but adds absolutely nothing to the film or reactions of the characters
• the characters make no sense at all and act in silly ways
• Paul Giamattis appearance is so incredibly lame and stupid I couldn't watch him in a film for years (Pattinson too)