What I Liked: Not
a goddamn thing.
What I Didn’t Liked:
Every goddamn thing
Overall Impressions:
This is way worse than I remembered. I
mean I didn’t like it the one other time I saw it a long way back but holy shit
is this kinda unbearable. It’s
completely incoherent. The dialogue, shifts
in tone, mashups of tone, acting, horrendous character development, story ideas
that don’t make sense or fit within the franchise, etc, it’s all so fucking awful. At least on a technical level it’s shot and
edited mostly fine. You know who is
where and stuff…well…that is until someone starts speaking then it just turns
into gibberish again.
The movie is semi-famous for starring Renee Zellweger (Appaloosa) and Matthew McConaughey (Killer Joe) very early in their
careers. Zellweger actually does alright
but there are a couple of times when she can barely muster the shitty lines
she’s supposed to say and does the minimal amount of work to get through the
scene. McConaughey meanwhile goes too
far over the top with the madman routine.
He’s downright zany, cartoonish and incomprehensible. It becomes annoying almost instantly how hard
he pushes the craziness in every scene.
Then there’s this guy in a suit who rides around in a limo
who’s commissioning the murders for no reason that’s explained. He’s got markings and piercings on his chest
that aren’t explained either. And
McConaughey has an unwieldly mechanical contraption on his leg that he needs to
walk and he controls it with multiple TV/VCR remotes and he likes to cut
himself with a knife and the hard rock soundtrack goes in and out at weird
times and one of the other bad guys likes to spout these sophisticated sounding
quotes from historic figures and later Grandpa who looks like he might be dead
opens his eyes, gets up and leaves the movie mid-scene and guys, I don’t know
what the fuck is happening.
This feels more like a terrible Texas Chainsaw knock off than a legitimate sequel in the series. It’s also too irritating to be an enjoyably
bad film so there’s no redemption there.
Just don’t watch it. Please.
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