The new movie “Marty Supreme” is yet another example of the latest type of Hollywood movie that focuses on being different rather than being good. This story is loosely based on a real table tennis player Marty Reisman (1930–2012) and is not a biography about his life. The sport of table tennis is not popular in the United States but is around the world, mostly in Japan, making this unlikely movie all the more unusual. Other attempts to make this story different are that it is way too loud, too long, too haphazard and most of all too weird.

Starting with the timeline starting in 1952, the unusual cast that includes Gwyneth Paltrow as a famous actress Kay Stone, Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser, the insane, broke, and constantly on the run table tenis player, x-NBA star player George Gervin of all people, Kevin O’Leary as the CEO of a pen company Milton Rockwell and angry husband of Kay Stone, who sponsors table tennis tournaments in Japan. Fran Drescher plays Marty’s mother, Rebecca Mauser.

Marty also has an on-again off off-again girlfriend, Rachel Mizler, played by Odessa A’zion, and their relationship includes scrounging for money, violence, and searching for a lost dog that later involved a gunfight. How this fits into a story about an overly ambitious table tennis player is anyone’s guess, with all these extra insane scenes making this entire 2-hour and 30-minute ride more difficult to sit through.

There is a scene with Milton Rockwell and Marty Mauser towards the end of this film that once again answers the question, “as an actor, how far are you willing to humiliate yourself to be a famous movie star, or to be an actor in a movie”? I could not believe this embarrassing scene with O’Leary and Chalamet, and I cannot believe the idiotic high ratings of 95% for this insane waste of two hours.

This movie is too long, too boring, too weird, and extremely loud. I am more than tired of all these crazy movies now becoming almost commonplace, released by Hollywood every year.

My rating for this movie is 50% only for some of Chalamet, who will probably be nominated for an Academy Award, and a recommendation to “miss this mess” at all costs.