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I'm a ticking time bomb, as this movie makes me anger than make me laughs. I love dark comedies, but I'm sorry, but I can't find this movie, that funny, knowing that the plot is very loosely based on a tragedy event that claim somebody life. In 2003, Brian Wells was an American pizza delivery man who was forced to rob a bank due to a bomb fastened to his chest. After he was apprehended by the police for robbing a bank, the bomb exploded, killing him. The bizarre affair was subject to much attention in the mass media. The producers deny having prior knowledge of that event, but I have to say that, the film is way too similar to the real events that they have to be lying. The movie really lacks creatively. Directed by Ruben Fleischer, in the film, Nick (Jesse Eisenberg) is a slacker pizza delivery driver that got a bomb fastened to his chest by two slackers Dwayne King (Danny McBride) and Travis Cord (Nick Swardson), whom plan is to use the driver to steal money from the bank to hire an assassin to kill Dwayne's father, the Major (Fred Ward), and get his inheritance money. Indeed, the rating R movie plays on the really dark comedy that might be disturbing to some viewers. The movie doesn't really have any smart jokes, as it plays upon thoughtless crude humor to get around, it's 82 minutes running time. For a movie that says a lot can happen in 30 minutes. There was little to no sense of time in the film. If the movie made the scenes, more tense or funny. Maybe, the film could had work, but no. The film goes really have a lot of filler scenes full of product placements. I guess, Nissan must have paid a lot of money to show off that nicely restored Datsun. Also Arby's and 5-Hour Energy drinks. It's weird that all laptops seem to be Sony Vaio! Honestly, did the companies being feature in the film, know what film, they are helping fund? Being associated to this film is such bad PR. With all that money that the movie got from product placement, you would think they would hired better writers? The movie also really tries it's hardest to degrade women to the point, it was a bit overbearing, how crude the sexual remarks were. The continuous running gag of the two slackers wanting to start a prostitution ring became less and less funny, and more disturbing by the second. By the end of the film, it felt like the movie was stating out women only purpose of living are to be sex toys to men. Nudity is just there to show that viewpoint. Women are not put in a positive light at all. It wasn't needed to run the joke to the ground, to the point, that it got muddy, and tasteless. The brick jokes even fall flat. There is plenty of action scenes that were performance, most wasn't that bad. Once again, the movie really depends on unrealistic slapstick humor to get around, and its shows that most of the jokes in the movie are that. The foul language doesn't help make the jokes, funnier. Some of them, seem oddly place within the dialogue. Really derogatory terms, name calling. Most of the characters are unsympathetic unlikeable people that is hard to root for. Even Nick is a jerk-ass. The acting is alright, but if anybody states out in their role is Aziz Ansari as Chat, Nick's best friend. There is an alternate ending that maybe is worth checking out, if you do, end up watching this film. Most of this alternate ending just follow the post-credits scene. I do find the movie lacking a message. Honestly, without spoiling it, how in the end, did everybody get out scots free!? What was learn? Nothing, really. No big punch line to the whole film. It was one big Shaggy Dog story. This movie is a extremely long-winded anecdote characterized by extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents and terminated by an anticlimax or a pointless punchline. Overall: I will drop an F-Bomb here and say this movie: fails to entertain me. It was just disappointing.
score 5/10
ironhorse_iv 25 May 2014
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