Dwayne (Danny McBride) is the son of a rich ex-marine and he wants his inheritance to come a
little quicker so he hires an assassin to kill his father. But the assassin
needs £100,000 and so Dwayne kidnaps a pizza delivery guy and straps a bomb to his
chest, saying that the only way he’ll survive will be if he can get that money.
Nick (Jesse Eisenberg), the pizza guy, brings his best friend in on it and the two rob a bank.
Nick and Chet (Aziz Ansari) have to outrun the police after robbing the
bank. Now I know they were being watched by Dwayne and Travis (Nick Swardson) and so they
couldn’t physically go to the police but you know what they could’ve done?
Phoned the police and told them what they were being made to do and then the
police could’ve phoned the bank so that Nick could go in, get the (fake,
probably?) money and then take it to the bad guys. I realise we then wouldn’t
have had a film that went on ridiculously with car crashes, explosions and
flamethrowers but maybe that just means we shouldn’t have had a film at all.
I don’t remember laughing at any point, despite this being a
‘comedy’. From what I understand, the funny bits were meant to be when the
Dwayne character was swearing and talking about sex-related things? I don’t
know, it was lost on me. I’m also not a fan of Jesse Eisenberg. People are
always getting on at Kristen Stewart for her terrible acting but as far as I’m
concerned, he is worse. Even when he was supposedly panicked after having a
bomb strapped to his chest, he had the exact same expression on his face that
he has in non-stressful situations. He’s just not interesting to watch on
screen.
4/10
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