I agree with 'sickened by sick city' as I too became the victim of false promises through its overblown reviews.  It is one thing to encourage a work of a 'potential' but preposterous to elevate it to the level of veterans even in a green field such as Nepal's! I don't belong to filmmaking academia but as an ardent movie buff and an avid supporter of indies, artsies, etc., what I do know or want from my movies is a strong grip on story, creativity and if not, then, at least a sense of consistent rhythm in it. What starts to annoy you from the start in 'Sick City' is the apparent sluggishness in the edits of the movie, or was it intentional to include the clumsy bump sound of the camera/tripod in a crucial scene? Had the director paid attention to the extraneous noises and made appropriate cuts, the movie could have stirred the right emotion on its audiences instead of complete detachment, which I felt. Small screen tends to forgive loose edits but to have a theatrical screening and expecting your audience to let go of the rough spots is unforgivable. On a positive note, I liked the plot or the story and its relativity or similarity to any young man's struggle to make it big in the tough urban jungle and his downfall when he chooses the 'fast-track'. However, what might have looked promising in the script has failed to deliver on the screen possibly because of the lacking sense of 'continuity' or 'smoothness' in the story-portrayal and its baffling 'logic'. One small example is the crazy blind daughter of the big don who walks around in the middle of the night in Thamel, carrying a bunch of keys that unlock the doors to her father's night club and not to forget the 'loaded' safe box!?! okkkk....and the most baffling one: the whole movie is shot in the night light,  I assume, symbolic to its somber theme- the sleaziness and crimes of a night life in thamel...hmm, but the climax of the movie, where the don is going to commit the most gruesome crime happens in a broad daylight on the Bagmati beach! okkkkk....so much for the smart big don. No wonder he trusted his crazy daughter with the keys to his safe box! The tempo and the mood of the movie at the end remains the same - dragging, despite our hero whose dreams and hopes have just been shattered into pieces.

I hope there are more out there (and I know there are) to point out to Murray where he has stumbled, especially amongst his own well-wishing circle. Nothing personal but a friendly suggestion for him to work harder in his next projects. Show us what you really got.  If he wants to make better movies, he had better buckle up for harsher audiences, and not to take their intelligence and tastes for granted. Most high hopes are often followed by disappointments but next time I would love to be proven wrong.