John Stockwell is a director who has consistently disappointed me throughout his career. Stockwell showed promise with his 2001 film
Crazy/Beautiful, starring Kirsten Dunst and Jay Hernandez, but has since made a series of clunkers:
Blue Crush, Into the Blue and
Turistas.
His last film,
Middle of Nowhere, impressed me a bit when I saw it at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. I called it a "a multi-layered coming of age ...