1st time I REALLY paid attention to it and I am awe-struck! I did not know that Friedkin directed this cult ....The exquisite manipulation of character motivations as it became embedded into an over-arching deconsctruction of moral values ....This is a masterpiece of dark humour dripping in satire at the genius level only matched by the total magnificence of the ensemble acting!!!
"You gonna kill someone? You can't even tell time!"
I am still processing what I just watched. What a dark and insane tale of trailer trash is this? This is unfortable to watch yet I couldn't stop watching it. Matthew McConaughey absolutely kills it, and I will never look at fried chicken the same.
Fun Fact: Kurt Russell turned down the role, saying that his long-term partner, Goldie Hawn, would "kill him" for playing such a dark role.
Well.. This was.. Weird..
Dunno if I liked it or hated it, seriously.. Just left me with "dafuq did I just watch?".
Imagine if Rob Zombie directed a '90s Tarantino movie.
Killer Joe is a film I had heard about way before I saw it. Given the reputation, and the NC-17, I thought it was going to be brutal.
Now, while the movie has some nudity, and violent moments, it's surprisingly tame. There is a term commonly used to describe stories like this one: evil doing evil to evil.
Without a doubt, the movie is a fun watch as it's going, however the story never feels complete. There's no first or third act. It's just a really long second act. We're dropped into a story where Chris Smith is in debt to the wrong type of people. How will he ever get the money? That's there the titular killer, Joe, comes into play.
Killer Joe begins as a fairly grounded crime thriller, but starts to go off the rails once the unhinged Joe is free from his leash. That is to say, the harshest moments here are so over the top as to be comedic.
I have to say, McConaughey really is having fun here. If you're wondering what period of his career this is, well, he's not in the cheeseball mode of his early acting, nor the dead-serious gear of his later work, no, he's drawing from his role in the TCM remake. This crazy Texas s'n'bitch is giving it his all as a truly crazy Texas s'n'bitch.
I'd recommend this for fans of gritty '90s crime movies, like: Freeway, True Romance, and Natural Born Killers.
As long as blood and boobs don't bother you, you'll be fine.
I wonder if Gershon still likes chicken.
I've just watched this and I've already forgotten how it ended.
What did stick in my mind was how seriously unpleasant all the characters were.
So.
Much.
YELLING!!!!!
And I can't stand it.
Don't know how I missed this when it first came out, but found it unexpectedly in 2020. Wow... fabulous movie. The writing is great, the plot and all the actors were great... and the ending!!
Funny with plenty of twists to the story keep you entertained for the whole movie.
10/10
One of those movies you watch and forget about twenty minutes later because of the poor ending and execution.
Well, it's more like a theatre-movie. The characters are talking to each other, but in strange, exaggerated ways. They talking to each other, but not with each other. It's more like every character has his own monologue within the dialogue.
This is very strange.
Also at the end it gets pretty strange.
In the end i liked Matthew McConaughey performance, but i don't like the result.
Lo primero que supe de esta película: Juno Temple hace un desnudo. Eso fue suficiente para interesarme en ella… en la película.
¿De qué va? Un muchacho texano (Hirsch) agobiado por las deudas tiene la espantosa idea de asesinar a su madre ya que su pequeña hermana, Dottie (Temple) es la única beneficiaria de la póliza de seguro. Todos, su ex esposo (Haden Church) y los dos hijos están de acuerdo en asesinar a la desdichada mujer, para eso contratan a Joe (McConaughey) un policía que en su ratos libres se dedica a eliminar personas indeseables, por una módica cuota de $25,000 dólares por adelantado. Ese es el problema. La garantía del pago será Dottie. Así comienza la película.
Es una historia aterradora al estilo “¡Cómo son capaces de hacer eso!”, llena de intrigas, algunas cuantas sorpresas, sangre, violencia y sexo; que está bien contada y con personajes muy bien construidos, quizás la actuación de Juno Temple sea la más floja, pero es Juno Temple, actuando como una rubia tonta, un poco loca y haciendo un desnudo, ¿no es suficiente para ustedes? Eso, el desnudo y la violencia son recursos que intentan hacer a la película arriesgada, que aparecer valiente y dura, pero se nota que podría contarse una buena historia sin ese tipo de abusos. Llega a sorprendernos, pero no nos lleva a ningún lado.
No es una gran opción, pero podría haber sido mucho peor. Busque gifs animados de Dottie y ahorrense una hora y cacho de vida.
P.D. Ah, me reí un par de veces, pero no es divertida.
Otra P.D. No volveré a ver las piernas de KFC igual.
Opens with a disgusting family. The characters are setup fast with all the impending complications from the plot. So far so good. What follows?
Stereotypical redneck characters (stripper, mentally challenged father, drug dealer son, a cop that's a killer, used girl) with unbelievable morals, making stupid decisions to drive the farcical plot. Mediocre dialogue that treds the same ground again and again, somehow even with plot development. Add in some boobies, bush and perv stuff to be dark. The Pacing feels like an episode from a TV series. The ending makes it the dumbest redneck movie of the year that wants to be edgy.
If any other director made this movie the professional critics would have probably disliked it. It's not awful, it's just humdrum. It's a Coen brothers movies without the pseudo-intellectual nonsense.
The positives. Least Gina Gershon looks good for her age. The ending is unintentionally funny.
Weird and disturbing film, didn't like it and i would never recommend this
Weird film. I liked the way that Joe wants to remain calm despite the bad happened.
poor directing ,,weird story , weird ending the whole movie is so weird
and Joe is kind of overdressed the gloves and the hat which is weird
I didn't really like it they could have made it a lot better
a brilliant disturbing masterpiece!
really liked this, sick, twisted, weird...good stuff
Shout by Calum ScottBlockedParent2014-02-09T00:43:01Z
Weird ending but incredible movie.