Venice Review: Dito Montiel's 'Man Down' With Shia LaBeouf, Gary Oldman, Jai Courtney & Kate Mara

The world is a vast and wonderful place, filled with inexplicable and peculiar things, and one of them is the career of musician-turned-model-turned-author-turned-director Dito Montiel. Perhaps with a backstory as colorful as his it's inevitable that the first Dito Montiel film, "A Guide To Recognising Your Saints," which was adapted by Dito Montiel from a book by Dito Montiel based on the life of 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer — naw, just kidding, based on the life of Dito Montiel — was going to be his best. But it doesn't really account for the odd shape of his career thereafter. After an inspired start, he's been working regularly, often with solid casts. Yet most of his films are the type that you stumble across late some night on cable and wonder a) how can I never have heard of this if it has all these people in it, and b) why is it not very good? But hey, if you're reading this, at least in a couple of years when you're...