Its trickery might seem cute or clever to viewers who don't take either movies or people very seriously, but to me it recalled cynical "puzzle" films like Memento and Irreversible, with no reason to exist apart from its gimmick.

As much as it tries to be a smart, postmodern indie film, dot the i is pure Hollywood fluff.

So in love with its own inventions and convolutions that it ignores all plausibility and audience acceptance.

You watch the screen in disbelief and amazement that any aspiring auteur could so willfully undermine his own project this way.