The first rule of “Manodrome” is you don’t talk about “Fight Club.” “Fight Club” looms large over writer-director John Trengrove’s unsettling second feature, even if no one overtly mentions David F…
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Here, he finds it in a secret society of like-minded dudes, spearheaded by Adrien Brody as a self-appointed father figure who calls himself “Dad Dan,” and who teaches Eisenberg’s character, Ralphie, to “man up.
“Manodrome” has more than a few parallels with the divisive Sundance entry “Magazine Dreams” . It’s a genre that shifts alongside society’s expectations of its men, and yet, without voiceover narration, such pent-up characters can often feel frustratingly inscrutable.
But Ralphie will eventually snap, of course, and when he does, the scene feels didactic and unconvincing. He shoots and kills someone for exposing in him a dimension that the film never adequately establishes, and here, “Manodrome” transitions from being an intriguing premise — a way of manifesting in the real world the kind of cult-like fraternities that seem to be brainwashing young men online — to a didactic lecture on what’s wrong with the state of modern masculinity.
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