Plodding at first, albeit interspersed with the titillation of Daniel Craig in numerous gay sex scenes as Burroughs’ avatar Lee. But the plot doesn’t seem to go anywhere. Burroughs novels are hard to adapt, and were never really about the plot. It’s his language that provokes, his outrageous and often obscene language, and this gets lost on screen. The script tries to compensate for this by having Lee blurt out a few disturbing vignettes, which are disturbing but not particularly…
