Meeting the parents of a partner for the first time is a situation fraught with tension; add issues of race, some sudden loud bangs and some kooky psychological thrills and you'd expect a movie not to be as boring in long stretches as this - part of the problem is it feels unfinished (there are images and scenes from the movie's promotional material which are entirely missing), and the movie's really clever ideas are either cut short too soon (you'll want more time with all of the characters, especially Catherine Keener's hypnotist) or let down with daft plotting (like candlebra in a surgery, or three cops who laugh off a ridiculous story ignoring the Googleable fact of a missing man, or antisocial track and field training in the middle of the night).
★★★☆☆
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