As an investment banker struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash, his increasingly confessional series of letters to a vending machine company catch the attention of a customer service rep with whom he forms an unlikely connection.
The best efforts of Jake Gyllenhaal, as an emotionally distant investment banker who reacts to his wife's sudden death by smashing things, aren't enough to save Demolition from itself. What a pretentious, uneven, off-putting, not-nearly-as-clever-as-it-thinks-it-is MESS. - One and a half stars