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My, oh, my.I first received a copy of this film on VHS back when that was still the industry standard at the time and watched it multiple times.Absolutely horrific and an illustration of just how bad an average middle-class life can turn on a dime for no good reason what-so-ever.At the time I had a Lady Friend from work who wanted to borrow it. She had a young child at home and I warned her this was some rough stuff and explicitly told her that her kid definitely didn't need to see it.She thanked me later.This film has not lost it's impact over the years. It is a terrible story to behold and is a testament to the sometimes vapid themes otherwise normal people will overlook just to appear as respectable human beings to the rest of the world.No one has a happy ending in this story.
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Here's, it's another wild bachelor party celebration in Vegas gone wrong. If familiar with an earlier B grade flick, Stag, here this more mainstream film pumps it up with a little over the top violence ( just check out the bathroom) as in the disposing of our hot Asian call girl. Favreau is great as the always indecisive bride to be, it must to be sheer relief to get away from the always nagging Cameron Diaz. She's so intolerable, any guy would be out of there in a minute. Very Bad Things is great as how our well written characters, deal with the tidying of the mess, Slater, an unbalanced real estate agent, the remorseless of them all. Soon a bigger mess evolves, when the gang's number starts to diminish, through accidental and malicious acts, or ones of sacrifice, until, only two men remain, with what's left of their life, it's hysterical. Honestly the death scene with Slater, desperately reaching for a door back into the church, where the ceremony's about to start, it looks as though blood was just slapped on him. By the cover you would misinterpret, Diaz and Slater being married, but be warned VBT, is really out there, humorous, but morbidly disturbing too.
Bene Cumb
The idea is okay and at least two performances are very good (Christian Slater as Robert Boyd, a vicious real estate agent, and Cameron Diaz as Laura Garrety-Fisher, Kyle's determined fiancée and later wife), but the plot is hectic and uneven; at times nice thrilling moments are replaced by long and nervous reasoning on issues like remorse and moral. However, black humor is in place and the pre-wedding events are more or less realistic; later ones I was not so fond of and the ending were not up to my expectations either. But it is true that a small thing going out of control could trigger serious consecutive incidents where there is no way back... But do not reckon on remaining "totally clean"!
