5.5/10
Jack Nicholson's directorial debut, part of the BBS Story set...I'm not really sure what Nicholson was going for. This is a pretty flimsy, scattershot take on 70's restlessness and Vietnam-induced paranoia. Some things make a lasting impression - the opening titles and theme song, a nonsequitor speech that gives the movie its title, the batshit insane ending, and Michael Margotta's crazed performance as the lead character's roommate, on the edge of psychosis in the wake of Vietnam and the draft. William Tepper in the lead (a bored and disaffected basketball star) is very bland and Karen Black's performance is pretty tame for her standards, until the end of the film at least. The movie feels undercooked and especially dated now, on the whole.
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