The acting is bad. The cast is weak. The jokes are terrible. The script is stupid. It is shot poorly, and even the makeup and effects were way below sub-par. And that is just in the first 7 minutes. They tried SO hard to build tension and suspense, and all of it falls flat. One of the major issues with this film is that they attempt to play certain situations as serious and tense, and none of them are. As for the jokes, they are of this caliber:

-Calling reading palms a "handjob," so one character can say she gave handjobs to everyone in the office -A busty brunette saying she is very "anal ...(long pause) about packing." -The same busty brunette working at DD Accounting -A jewish lawyer character straight out of a racist, Nazi propaganda cartoon from the 1930s. I'll leave it at that for the jokes, a those are the ones that happen in the first 10 minutes of the movie. But please believe that none of them land. Ever.

The whole movie is punctuated by a close-up, bad makeup, protagonist who monologues the viewer through the movie's events. Give this guy a supporting role in a "dude bro" comedy and I'm sure he'll do fine. In this, he is absolutely incapable of carrying this movie.

In order to avoid spoiling anything past the first 15 minutes, I'll just say about the premise that having been given a 2 week notice to vacate a business building, it is ridiculous that the tenants would wait until the evening of the last day to start packing paperwork and move.

The soundtrack and the way that the whole movie pauses for musical montages every time they feature a song is very amateurish.

This movie might have risen to a 2 or *maybe* a 3 (for Graham Greene and Max Perlich alone.) But the racist Jewish character drops this to the unwatchable level.

Props to Tres Delincuentes who make an appearance on this soundtrack.

The Greenwood Family Computer repair is being evicted from their office and are in the final day of moving. They disturb the tar monster with their noise and light and must fight him off. Includes horror film icon Tiffany Shepis and eye-candy Nicole Alexandra Shipley.

They appear to have all the elements but the characters were bland. Zach's relationship with his father? Who cares? Lousy flashbacks. A wasted role for Tiffany Shepis. Nicole Alexandra Shipley never takes a shower.

Guide: F-word. Near sex. No nudity.

Granted, I wasn't really sure what the movie "Tar" from writers Timothy Nuttall and Aaron Wolf was going to be like. Initially I had thought it was a horror movie when I sat down to watch it. But perusing IMDb, I quickly discovered that the movie was labeled as a mystery drama. Already there, some of the air deflated from the balloon.

Sure, while "Tar" is watchable, it just wasn't a particularly entertaining or enjoyable movie. Why? Well, simply put because far too little of any worth or interest happened throughout the course of the movie with director Aaron Wolf at the helm. The events that took place throughout the movie just weren't sufficient enough to sustain the movie, nor really keep it afloat as it was sinking due to the prolonged and slow pacing of the story.

And the movie's synopsis brandish a 'mysterious creature'. Just where in the movie was that? All I saw was a man in rags with tar smeared on him. And the face mask or make-up made him look more like an orc from "The Lord of the Rings" than it made him look like a mysterious creature.

As for the special effects in the movie, well those were actually adequate. Well, aside from the creature design, which was just atrocious.

While I managed to sit through the entire course of "Tar", it was a slow paced journey, where I was losing interest a couple of times along the way. But I stuck with it.

The acting in the movie was adequate, taking into consideration the limitation of script and lack of interesting characters. It was actually a nice touch to have Graham Greene in the movie, because he definitely added something worthwhile with his performance.

All in all, "Tar" is not just an outstanding or memorable movie. I am rating it a generous four out of ten stars. And this is hardly the type of movie that will have you returning to watch it a second time, as the movie's storyline and script is just too simplistic and can't sustain more than a single viewing.