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.
