Having no idea what to do with it, Warner Bros. just threw CITY BY THE SEA out there. They must’ve had no expectations for success either, hence the brief marketing campaign and its release during the dead season. Their research probably demonstrated terrible or average results among test audiences, and if so, they were right. CITY’s whole problem is that it’s just so average. There’s nothing special about it at all, except good performers giving it their all just to keep it afloat, and barely at that.