It’s a basic screenplay, one can tell from the jump just about what will happen and it unfolds more or less exactly as the blueprint dictates. Payne stylizes the movie like some kind of a Hal Ashby facsimile.
But like a great pop song that’s crafted just right there is something more going on besides three chords and the verse chorus versing and the simplistic and obvious rhyme scheme of the lyrics. Something extremely special that I’m not smart enough…