It misses the opportunity to examine why a community of people - each of whom has already given up on life - would band together to form a new society of desperate misfits.

It is a staggeringly awful road movie, not much enlivened by the presence of Tom Waits as a wizened participant.

The purgatorial premise is pleasingly eccentric but, in the end, Wristcutters falls victim to its washed-out mood, and limps bloodlessly to a close.

Realistic other-worldness is a challenge, especially in a live action film...Wristcutters: A Love Story couldn't quite pull it off...