A group of guys on a bachelors outing in Vegas accidently kill a prostitute & this leads to a series of cover ups, murders & bizarre events!
*Spoilers*
This is an OK movie, not great but fun. It is in some ways refreshingly dark but in others not that far removed from the usual Hollywood comedies. Its got a very black & surreal edge & the dark deeds & ever more ridiculous & inevitably doomed actions of the guys is fun to watch.
The cast are on the whole good, Jon Favreau & Jeremy Piven are excellent as usual. They really give a realistic portrayal of your average bloke caught up in this nightmare situation. Daniel Stern is also great as the tortured moral centre to the group, his scene when he breaks down at a petrol station is one of the highlights of the movie. Apart from Diaz the other players are nothing remarkable.
The one weak link in this movie, & the main thing which lets it down is Christian - I look a bit like a young Jack Nicholson so will copy him in every film I'm in - Slater! You should really never see the mechanics of acting in a movie but with Slater this is all you see! You are so aware of the fact that he is performing, he never convinces as the character, content to be a Nicholson impersonator rather than an actor & this is a major let down as he is a driving force for many of the events in Very Bad Things.
As mentioned Sterns character is the moral ground in this film & works well, but the movie does fall short on other occasions when it appears that the director/writer is implying a more serious message. For example a man having sex with a hooker intercut with the rest of the gang watching wrestling & playfighting. What is he trying to say? A link between violence & sex? Indeed this film is totally moralistic! If you do a bad thing then bad things will happen to you appears to be the message. It would have been darker & funnier if Slaters character had got away with it, walked away scott free at the end of the film whilst everyone else around him is either dead, disabled or mad!
So overall this is worth a watch not least to see the fine 'adult performance artiste' Kobé Tai in a mainstream movie! She isn't on screen for long though, & this is probably the first time she's had to get to grips with such a small part! Very Bad Things has some funny moments mixed with a very dark tone. It is slightly let down by a certain actors performance & the fact that it's not quite as funny or subversive as it should be/thinks it is.
*Spoilers*
This is an OK movie, not great but fun. It is in some ways refreshingly dark but in others not that far removed from the usual Hollywood comedies. Its got a very black & surreal edge & the dark deeds & ever more ridiculous & inevitably doomed actions of the guys is fun to watch.
The cast are on the whole good, Jon Favreau & Jeremy Piven are excellent as usual. They really give a realistic portrayal of your average bloke caught up in this nightmare situation. Daniel Stern is also great as the tortured moral centre to the group, his scene when he breaks down at a petrol station is one of the highlights of the movie. Apart from Diaz the other players are nothing remarkable.
The one weak link in this movie, & the main thing which lets it down is Christian - I look a bit like a young Jack Nicholson so will copy him in every film I'm in - Slater! You should really never see the mechanics of acting in a movie but with Slater this is all you see! You are so aware of the fact that he is performing, he never convinces as the character, content to be a Nicholson impersonator rather than an actor & this is a major let down as he is a driving force for many of the events in Very Bad Things.
As mentioned Sterns character is the moral ground in this film & works well, but the movie does fall short on other occasions when it appears that the director/writer is implying a more serious message. For example a man having sex with a hooker intercut with the rest of the gang watching wrestling & playfighting. What is he trying to say? A link between violence & sex? Indeed this film is totally moralistic! If you do a bad thing then bad things will happen to you appears to be the message. It would have been darker & funnier if Slaters character had got away with it, walked away scott free at the end of the film whilst everyone else around him is either dead, disabled or mad!
So overall this is worth a watch not least to see the fine 'adult performance artiste' Kobé Tai in a mainstream movie! She isn't on screen for long though, & this is probably the first time she's had to get to grips with such a small part! Very Bad Things has some funny moments mixed with a very dark tone. It is slightly let down by a certain actors performance & the fact that it's not quite as funny or subversive as it should be/thinks it is.