Get A Job is an incredibly confused film that wastes a remarkable amount of talented actors. To be honest, it's difficult to write a review for such a sub-par comedy. The problem is not that it's bad, that would be easy to write about - the problem is that it's just so damn mediocre.

There's a glimpse of social satire - but for whose side? At times when the audience is supposed to root for the underdog millenial, the characters come across as naïve and spoilt. At other times, it's the adults who are irrationally cynical. So maybe it's the rare occurrence when a film manages to create a complex dialogue within itself about societal expectations? No, unfortunately not. It's just a very confused script. The characters flip-flop in their motives and views as much as politicians: whenever the script demands it, they fulfil their role regardless of contradiction or rationality.

A lot has been said about the film's troubled distribution history. It was shot four years ago, unreleased because of studio stuff and personnel shifts - exactly what the film sorta kinda tries to poke fun at. Some say due to all this, it's dated. I'd have to disagree with that. Young people still face these same "problems", people are still making stupid apps to make money fast and taking jobs that are unfulfilling.

It's a comedy, is it funny? I think I smiled a couple of times. Just like everything in this film, the comedy walks that dreadful line of perfect mediocrity: not hilarious, but the jokes don't fall flat. They just are. There are attempts at crude sexual humour that are tonally jarring, physical humour that is... is... it is. There's physical humour. Of course, the talented Miles Teller pulls off some funny reaction shots, but you know you're scraping the bottom of the barrel when the only thing you can praise about a film is it's protagonist's face.

What else, what else? The film has energy, I guess. It's well acted and fairly well edited considering what they're working with. The director is Dylan Kidd, who wrote and directed the lovely little indie film Roger Dodger, featuring one of Jesse Eisenberg's first big-ish roles. This film feels like it was made by an imposter in every sense: tone, style, script, character.

Here are the reasons you'll probably watch the film: Anna Kendrick, Miles Teller,Bryan Cranston, Alison Brie, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and John Cho. They add up to the one star I'm giving to this film. Recommended for anyone who wants to forget 90 minutes of their life.