 The film received negative reactions by fans and critics alike, achieving a 30% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.Many criticized Iliopulos's failure to recreate Wood's innocent ineptitude at film making, including "Entertainment Weekly", which said the movie "never truly finds a way to evoke [Wood's] fractured hard-boiled syntax, his inimitable idiocy".The instrumental soundtrack for the film was composed by Larry Groupé and recorded and mixed by John Kurlander.