The mind-numbingly inconsequential plot might have worked in a short film or an episode of Pegg's sitcom, Spaced, but as a feature film A Fantastic Fear of Everything is a wretched waste of time.
He points out -- duh! -- that "painters do not merely reproduce; they select and highlight," and he complains that life, unlike art, tends to be filled "with repetitions, misleading emphases and inconsequential plot lines".
Nothing is inconsequential in Bovell's plot, which in the second half uses the same actors – John Simm, Kerry Fox, Ian Hart and Lucy Cohu – adroitly playing different characters: among them, a man whose wife has disappeared, the wife who is calling him on the phone and a troubled psychotherapist, while a thriller-style video flickers in the background.
The plot is largely inconsequential, since it's just an excuse for high-adrenalin fights and chases.
Eurogamer's Welsh considered the plot driven by "inconsequential MacGuffins" and thought the ending rushed, but praised the story for not stretching on too long.
And remember how that plot is repetitive and inconsequential?
Suddenly, the game seemed inconsequential.
For a brief time, they could offer up a kind of Borgesian magic, but the writing was schlocky, the plot twists jarring, the endings inconsequential.
(After a sequence involving a herd of pigs, we hear, "Over the next two months, fourteen would be slaughtered". What about the rest of us? Do pearls get a better deal than swine?) Just when you think the plot is drifting into the inconsequential, Julio and Tenoch go to a fancy wedding reception, attended by the Mexican President.
Meredith Blake, writing for the Los Angeles Times, was positive towards the episode, reasoning that the writing "is just so deliciously absurd that I can't help but giggle the whole way through", and that the plots featured here were "sublimely inconsequential.
The game itself was inconsequential.
