Killer Joe
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 1:54 pm
Saw William Freidkins Killer Joe yesterday and I can't make up my mind about it. it was billed as being 'darkly humerous' and yup, that hit the nail on the head. Very darkly humerous.
Matthew McConaughey plays a sinister cop who moonlights as a contract killer and who is enlisted by a trailer trash family in Dallas to perform a job on their behalf. The film is gritty and noir from the first moment to the last and the air of violence about to erupt never lets go from start to finish. Often it does and in the most explicit and unpleasant fashion. There are few likable charachters in the film, the exceptions being the simple daughter of the family played by Juno Temple and the bewildered father [who in fairness is also pretty unlikable as well] played by Thomas Haden Church.
The film is not for the faint hearted [the scene of a bloodily beaten Gina Gershon being made to felate an appropriately positioned chicken drumstick by policeman Joe is particularly unsettleing] but if you can get over this, it actually might be a pretty good film.
Matthew McConaughey plays a sinister cop who moonlights as a contract killer and who is enlisted by a trailer trash family in Dallas to perform a job on their behalf. The film is gritty and noir from the first moment to the last and the air of violence about to erupt never lets go from start to finish. Often it does and in the most explicit and unpleasant fashion. There are few likable charachters in the film, the exceptions being the simple daughter of the family played by Juno Temple and the bewildered father [who in fairness is also pretty unlikable as well] played by Thomas Haden Church.
The film is not for the faint hearted [the scene of a bloodily beaten Gina Gershon being made to felate an appropriately positioned chicken drumstick by policeman Joe is particularly unsettleing] but if you can get over this, it actually might be a pretty good film.