Review: ‘Max & Helena’

* Director: Prashant Nair

* Length: 9 minutes, 41 seconds

Max is a down-on-his-luck accountant who has had no luck with love. He’s not particularly handsome, and definitely not hip. He’s just a guy. At a local French restaurant he meets Helena, who is beautiful and radiant. For Max, it’s love at first sight. All he has to do is work up the courage to speak to her. That’s easier said than done.

Unfortunately, while this film starts out promising, the overall execution falls flat in the end. I’m sure there’s a message that director Prashant Nair was trying to get across, but it’s carried out in such a way that when the end credits begin to roll ever so abruptly, you’re left scratching your head and wondering, “What was the point?”

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