Well-made but irredeemably, genuinely horrible "Funny Games"*-type picture consisting of nothing but brutality as entertainment. Billed as a "black comedy", without a single bit of humor, unless you think violence is funny.
Two down-on-their-luck losers meet a rich couple in a bar who challenge them to an escalating series of repulsive, cruel, and brutally violent dares for massive sums of cash. And that's it, that's all there is. When someone finally wins the final dare, the movie ends with him returning home to his family with the money, and that's it. I supposed it's supposed to read as some sort of redemption that he's sicker than the other guy in how far he's willing to go to save his family's finances. I didn't really see it that way.
David Koechner in the role he was born to play—that's not a good thing—as the leering rich guy.
(*No link as I've never reviewed "Funny Games", and I don't intend to. "Funny Games" was a well-made movie consisting solely of a couple being brutally tortured by sadistic houseguests, and was conceptually an art project by a director whose goal was to make a movie no decent person would sit all the way through without walking out. Speaking as a guy who loved "Necropath" and even appreciated (if didn't exactly "enjoy") some of the "Human Centipede" movies on a certain level, simple cruelty and brutality, all by themselves, are not in any way entertaining to me. I guess I'm a decent person. I don't know who actually likes these movies. N.B. I've never liked "Last House On The Left", either. )
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