Vengeance
Ben Manalowitz, a journalist and podcaster, travels from New York City to West Texas to investigate the death of a girl he was hooking up with.
- Released:
- Runtime: 120 minutes
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thrillers
- Stars: B. J. Novak, Issa Rae, Ashton Kutcher, Boyd Holbrook, Dove Cameron, Isabella Amara, J. Smith-Cameron, Lio Tipton
- Director: B. J. Novak
Comments
- vithiet - 4 January 2023
Not what I expected... in a good way.
If from the title and premise you're expecting some kind of action thriller, this ain't it. What you do get is an unexpectedly dry, dark comedy with some surprising heart and plenty of interesting dialogue. For the most part of the movie I felt like this was going to be an 8/10 in my book but unfortunately it doesn't unravel so well in the last part. The lengthy dialogues become a bit tedious, the characters' actions are quite erratic and in the end it just feels rushed and a bit off. So I had to take out a star for this. That said Vengeance is still a really good movie I recommend, and a very decent directorial debut for BJ Novak. - spaghetticat-60192 - 30 November 2022
I feel like the lower reviews are from Conservative snowflakes who didn't finish the movie.
It's seriously like turning off The Christmas Carol before Marley vistit's because Scrooge is an unlikable protagonist. The funniest thing is the movie doesnt even paint Conservatives in a bad light. On the contrary, it makes the Texans seem genuine and fully fleshed out, and the outsider New Yorker seem like the vapid, shallow, characiture. Maybe if they finished the movie before review bombing it they'd see that too. Of course we are talking about the most overly-sensitive folk ever.
BJ is brilliant. I've always liked his writing and this might be his best work yet. It started out really funny and I wrote it off as a dumb comedy about f-boys, (100%), but by the mid-point it takes a hard dramatic turn that makes it disgustingly good. Kudos to BJ and the cast,
