Being a celebrity comes with many perks. The bigger you are, the more opportunities seem to come your way.

But as such an esteemed position it is, sometimes a celeb’s true colours surface, and ultimately bring them down, publicly. Bill Cosby, R Kelly, Mel Gibson and Ellen DeGeneres to name just a few.

This film sees a star, on the trail of comeback, who suddenly faces the possibility of being cancelled.

After being five years away from our screens, Reef Hawk is prepping for his return to acting. He started as a child actor, and has been famous for some time, but he had to take time for a drug problem.

When discussing this with his team, made of friends Xander (Matt Bomer) and Kyle (Cameron Diaz), they remind him that it’s not great if he returns with the truth, that he was struggling with a drug problem, and go with a more positive reason for his hiatus.

He’s in a good frame of mind, and looking forward to working again, until he gets a call for from his lawyer Ira (Jonah Hill); he’s been approached by someone who claims that they have video of Reef involved in something inappropriate, that could stop his return in its tracks.

Ira and his team are on hand as damage limitation, but advise Reef to start the process himself, by apologising to everyone he wronged.

Reef becomes anxious however, as he desperately tries to think what it is they have hanging over him, and could it possibly end his career?

This is the third film (and the second scripted, having directed a documentary) for actor Jonah Hill to direct, that he’s co-written, and also stars in.

It’s an interesting take on celebrity and cancel culture, but is sadly not as cutting satirically as it should have been. It has moments, some of the best in which Hill shines himself as the objectionable lawyer, but it has a few clunky gear changes as it attempts a more emotional level, that don’t really work.

Some of this is down to Reeves himself; he did some impressive work in his early years, with films such as River’s Edge, Point Break and the Bill and Ted flicks, but the franchises The Matrix and John Wick have pigeonholed him as an action star, which he has struggled to be seen as anything else.

His Reef is nothing more than a vessel for the story, and is mainly used as a character others can shine against in scenes, which isn’t a good look for the star himself. He is neither likeable nor hateable, devoid of any real personality, which has become more of a trait for the actor himself, sadly.

Hill saves much of the good stuff for himself, almost unrecognisable as Ira, with some entertaining meetings. It’s in the office where we see pictures of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Kevin Spacey, and Bill and Hillary Clinton on the walls, which give an insight into Ira’s character, but nothing more.

There was an opportunity to be scathing and darkly comical, but the concept is all too watered down to indulge in a redemption plotline, that is lacking.

An opportunity missed then, resulting in a middling script with a few comedic spikes to hold your attention.

What attempts to be an indictment on celebrity culture, ends up being an uneven comedy that lacks sparkle.