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Extremely entertaining and mostly successful, though I don’t know that I ever got a chance to feel bad for the spiraling “J.P.,” and I think at some point I was supposed to.

The funny thing is, his rapping isn’t that much worse than much of the other garbage out there. Also: further proof that Get Him To The Greek wasn’t a fluke – Diddy has quite a great deal of natural comic timing.

I’d love to see Affleck direct another film – I think he’s a terrific actor and has some good instincts. I’ve always been a Joaquin Phoenix fan and he’s really sharp here. Well done, overall and, of course, well played.