An overly bleak film ready to write off the world and go down in a blaze of gunfire, both middle fingers raised.
Irish Times August 3, 2012 Murray and Barr make for winning platonic chemistry even when Frank suspects himself of impure thoughts. Goldthwait holds his nerve as the film shi...
The Atlantic May 11, 2012 This is no simple wish-fulfillment revenge fantasy. It’s an indictment of us as viewers and tacit supporters of the cultural trash heap.
Sometimes you get the feeling Goldthwait is just making a list of the people he could do without, which is funny and makes you nod your head b...
Bobcat Goldthwait’s bracing new black comedy…
The satire feels hand-me-down and weak, and Goldthwait is firing blanks.
Semi-comic fantasia of violence against vapid pop culture can’t do justice to its own ideas.
This funny, sick twist of social satire is certainly locked and loaded, even if its aim is sometimes off.
Here is a film that begins with merciless comic savagery and descends into merely merciless savagery. But wow, what an opening.
A lot of what God Bless America has to say is on-target and is presented in such a straightforward, unvarnished fashion that it’s imposs...
New York Post May 11, 2012 The real problem is there’s just not enough plot on which to hang the message that mean people suck.
Interesting, sometimes kind of fun but, ultimately, not as satisfying as it might have been.
Sick and twisted, but Frank and Roxy give off such a sense of sincerity and passion, it’s easy to both laugh with them and oddly take th...
It’s about a terminally ill man who decides that if he is going to die, he is going to grab a gun and take a whole bunch of obnoxio...
Goldthwait shows a knack for pin-pointing the sulphurous hues within the kaleidoscopic rainbow of alienation and frustration, but has sadly fa...
Star Joel Murray is SO good and Bobcat finds the sharp edge of his satirical gift often enough to warrant a look.
The problem with the film is that it starts at such a lethal pitch there is nowhere believable it can build toward.
This movie’s idea of topical satire is to score points off of My Super Sweet 16 and legendary American Idol reject William Hung. Ti...
…isn’t as smart as it would like to think it is.
Goldthwait’s primary strength as a writer-director has been in starting with outrageous, high-concept hooks that develop into subtler, m...
[It] turns in on its own morality like a Mbius strip, endorsing kindness by practicing slaughter, and pulls us along for the ride.
Given that the movie starts out in such interesting fashion, it’s hugely disappointing to see it devolve so lazily into a generic vigila...
Gory, unfunny satire that deserves a prize for the most strained provocation of the year.
By wholeheartedly taking its main characters’s side instead of complicating or censuring his homicidal vigilante crusade, it proves inanely o...
In this "Falling Down" of pop-cultural observation, Goldthwait forgets the thrill of the chase; he’s more concerned with piercing verbal...
The new film’s fire-power is too sloppy, too wide-spread; it barely scathes even the easy target of an American television talent show comple...
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