Reef has no memory of ever having had sex on camera, and he can’t think of anyone who’d hate him enough to launch such incriminating evidence into the world. Then again, there’s a lot that, as a recovering addict, he can’t remember from his darkest days. He begins a frantic search to locate and apologize to anyone he may have hurt, from his self-centered reality-star mother (Susan Lucci), to his old girlfriend (Welker White), who informs him outright that he’s simply not a good person, to his former manager (Martin Scorsese, in a cameo that almost manages to be affecting), who was unceremoniously kicked to the curb long ago. Reef listens to each story intently and earnestly; as Reef, Reeves is so straightforward, so sympathetic, that he undermines whatever is supposed to be funny about Outcome. There’s no way you can believe that Reef, embodied by Keanu, could ever be that much of a jerk.
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