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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Director Kevin Smith detailed on social media how the third-act of his latest film, Yoga Hosers works as an apology to critics. The fantasy thriller that stars Kevin's daughter Harley Quinn Smith, Lily-Rose Depp and her father Johnny Depp, features a pair of convenience store clerks who find them themselves battling against a group of Canadian Nazis.
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The film has been receiving negative reviews from critics after it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Currently it holds a 30% rating on review collection site RottenTomatoes. Kevin responded to one of the negative reviews on Twitter in which he outlined how the film is his way of making peace with reviewers.
"SPOILERS! The 3rd act of @YogaHosers and what it really means is decoded in this attachment! Sounds stupid but true!" the filmmaker noted on Twitter alongside a photo of his response to a critic that features his lengthy explanation as to the inner-workings of the project's third-act.
"See in real life, I'd really turned bitter about filmmaking. even fighting with critics over Cop Out. And my [expletive] was getting darker and darker," he wrote referencing his 2010 action comedy starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan.
"But then I worked with my daughter in my actual profession in a way I'd never expected to in life," he continued. "Working with my only child made film fun again and wiped out my bitterness. She was my salvation: she killed the crazed old artist in me and saved me from myself."
Smith then detailed how in the picture Harley and Lily-Rose stop the main antagonist who blames critics for his failed, out-of-control art and how that character represents himself.
"To me, the third act of Yoga Hosers is like a quasi-apology to critics I fought with back in the day. Some of them will never let me live it down, but the gesture is there just the same - ironically in the movie of mine they seem to hate the most."
Yoga Hosers is due in select theaters Sept. 2.
