Rating of
3/4
I got the dark parts, not the funny parts.
Matthew Brady - wrote on 11/15/14
These only one thing I got during this movie and that's the really dark parts, but not the comedy.
The story to Killer Joe is about a Detective "Killer" Joe Cooper, a hired hit man with the manners of a Southern gentleman, who will do the job - for an upfront fee, that Chris and Ansel can't pay. Just as Joe is about to leave, he spots Dottie (Temple), Chris' innocent younger sister. Joe makes Chris an offer, he'll keep Dottie as sexual collateral until the money is collected and his fee can be paid.
Has I said in my Bernie review, 2011 was the biggest come back for Matthew McConaughey and in this movie he once again brings it his all and that's what I like to see from him. I learned today that actors can start off in bad movies or mediocre films and it may take a while to get their fame and real talent on the big screen, but sooner or late it will come to them and it will be worth the wait.
The director of the film "William Friedkin", he's well know for The French Connection and The Exorcist, and now we got Killer Joe and to me he's still got it and he still knows how to directed a film, because he directed this movie in a style that suits the tone of the film.
Matthew McConaughey was fan freaking tastic in this movie. The rest of the cast did a fine job, the writing was good, the score was nice to listen to.
The movie is supposed to be a dark comedy, but as I said at the beginning of the review: "I only got the dark parts and not much of the comedy", and that's the biggest nick pick with the movie and didn't find it funny. But they was this one part were McConaughey puts a peace of fried chicken between his legs and makes a women suck the fried chicken like she was giving him a blow job and that scene to me kind of made me laugh, because of how silly and ridiculous it was. The character's in the movie were pretty forgettable but Joe wasn't forgettable, he was cool.
Killer Joe may put some people off, but to me this movie has it's good parts and it's not so good parts.
