Despite the fact that everyone has the ability to make their own film, carrying these very smart phones as we all do, it is still a challenge to get it up there on a big screen.

US filmmaker Zeshaan Younus accepted the challenge however, and made his second feature through crowdfunding, and this is the result.

Living in LA as an aspiring actress is Parker (Renee Gagner). She’s going to auditions, but nothing has materialised just yet.

Then out of the blue, she gets some bad news – her sister Indiana (Rosie McDonald) has been murdered.

She then puts are acting on hold, and makes her way back home to Arizona, to discover what exactly happened to her sister.

You have to admire Younus’ drive to make a film, on what he describes as a “microbudget”, which was shot in only ten days. What you don’t have to admire is his inability to deliver a compelling narrative, with what is sadly, all ‘style’ over no substance whatsoever.

In short, it’s a pretentious waste of time. The first red flag is the screens square ratio. The second is the fact the opening credit doesn’t appear until 32 minutes in. It’s almost a sign of false hope as you wish it were the closing credits, but alas, no such luck.

Another sign is the blurb used to promote it, which has the following: “I’ve Seen All I Need to See is an atmospheric and experimental meditation on being lost in the maze of grief.” Now that is a huge red flag, with a bullshit statement trying to encourage an unlikely audience to fall for it.

The reality of it is that it’s nearly an hour and half film where nothing happens. There are many scenes of Gagner looking into the distance, probably trying to communicate what exactly is happening in the film telepathically, but sadly not succeeding.

And then nearly every scene lingers, for no apparent reason. If you cut these scenes down, or even out, you would have – what you should have had – a tight short student film. That’s where lingering shots of grass belong, not in a full length feature.

The only sense of grief will come from it killing a little bit of your soul from wasting your time with it.

The fact the Younus crowd sourced his budget is admirable, but on the back of this, he may well find a large number asking for their money back.

So if you feel your time is precious, then you’ve read all you need to read.