God's
Pocket 2/10
Death
Becomes Her. American Psycho. Dr. Strangelove. These are dark
comedies. I had no idea that the second film Cam and I saw for the
night called God's Pocket was supposed to be one as well. After I
found out that it was considered one my reaction was “Oh?
Oh...okay. I guess I could see that. Kinda.” When a movie starts
off with a sad ass looking funeral without a hint that something
funny could even happen its hard to jump to that conclusion. This
movie had a very strong cast including Phillip Seymour Hoffman,
Christina Hendricks, John Turturro, Richard Jenkins, and Eddie
Marsan. A lot of good people just wasted in this.
Since
I couldn't laugh at this movie I had to watch it as a film that felt
as if it didn't know where it needed to go. You see a couple that has
uncomfortable looking sex followed by waking their drug using son up
for work. He gets there, drops some n-bombs, and gets his punk ass
killed by an old Black man. The crime is covered up and funeral plans
are made. His mother (Hendricks) thinks that something else had to
have happened since she thinks her son was a good kid. The
step-father (Hoffman) and his friend (Turturro) have side scams that
they are running. Money needs to be made to pay off bad men and for
the kids funeral.
A
reporter that has a drinking problem (Jenkins) is covering the story
of the kids death and interviews the mother and falls in love with
her as soon as he sees her which is not hard. Its Hendricks. This
movie begins to be a series of people doing the worst thing they can
in a situation but its not funny. Its just stupid. I don't usually
give a damn about how critics rate films since they see them all for
free and most times review films without seeing them but this movie
has gotten a lot of bad reviews across the board.
Maybe
this could've been better if someone else had directed it (this is
actor John Slattery's first time directing). I'm not sure. Maybe its
just a bad film. In the end this film is pointless. No one learned
anything. No one grew from it. I left the theater and the only thing
I was happy about was the popcorn, Milk Duds, Mexican food in my
stomach, the fact that I got to hang with my friend, and saw an
incredible film before this one. You shouldn't bother seeing this.
Its a waste of everyone's time. The center of this movie is a
terrible young man where no one bothers to explain why he is the way
he is and never says why everyone lets him act like
such an asshole.
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