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The troubled child actor turned performance artist stars as a version of his father in a semi-experimental, semi-successful attempt to exorcise his demons
For what seemed like an interminable amount of time earlier this decade, Shia LaBeouf was an unbearable and unbearably over-reported distraction. His initial promise as a precocious child star extended into his teens as he matured into a fine young actor yet swirling rumours of difficult behaviour soon gave birth to a new phase of rather tiresome and very public provocation.
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