Soderbergh's talent is not in doubt; you can see, in the often elegant images shot by Walt Lloyd, a real filmmaker at work. But his choice of material is dubious.

Steven Soderbergh's Kafka is a very bad well-directed movie.

A movie about Franz Kafka? It's a good idea for a microsecond. Then it dissolves into a dumb proposition.

It's surreal and paranoid, but a mostly underwhelming and tonally confusing watch.