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6. It's Two Hours Long (For Some Reason)

Though it's often a wonderful thing that Netflix gives their filmmakers an enormous amount of freedom to make exactly the movie they want to, it also has to be said that their lack of editorial oversight does result in many of their movies boasting indecently excessive runtimes.

Mere weeks after Netflix's The Last Days of American Crime - which landed a staggering 0% on Rotten Tomatoes - clocked in at 149 minutes, we have a comedy movie which needlessly crosses the two-hour mark.

It's often said that the sweet spot for a broad comedy is around 100 minutes, yet given what little this film has to offer, it probably should've been much shorter than that.

Bloated out with tiresome subplots and scenes that are allowed to go on for far too long, there's absolutely no reason the movie needs to run 123 minutes, only making it less-enticing a proposition than had it been a breezy 85.

As the legendary Roger Ebert once put it, "No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough."