A Film with Me in It

2010 "A black comedy about screenwriting and slightly fatal accidents"
6.6| 1h29m| NR| en
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A dissolute scriptwriter and a dejected actor become unwittingly drawn into a labyrinthine mess when several people experience bizarre accidental deaths in their flat. Though the men didn't deliberately cause any of the incidents, they fear that they will be unfairly pegged as murderers if they relay information to the cops, and promptly set about disposing of the corpses in gruesome ways.

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Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland

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StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Michael Heide The idea is fantastic. A bunch of people keep having deadly accidents in the apartment of a broke wannabe-actor. Now he has to avoid looking like a deranged serial killer while the bodies start piling up and his best friend tries to write a movie around the whole thing. Tucker & Dale Versus Evil uses one half of that plot, and it is hilarious. 7 Psychopaths uses the other half, and it's brilliant. One would think that a black-humoured British amalgam of both ideas, starring Dylan Moran of Black Books and Shaun of the Dead would be even better. One would be very, very mistaken. The first wasted opportunity is casting Dylan Moran not as the lead, but as the grumpy alcoholic screenwriter friend who plays second fiddle to Mark Doherty. Doherty is unable to make his character likable, or what happens to him intriguing. Instead, he sleepwalks through the movie like a robot telling a joke. The next big flaw is the soundtrack, or lack thereof. Combined with the bad pacing, you never get a sense of events escalating. Instead, it's a string of the same thing happening over and over again until the film ends with an unlikely and unsatisfying denouement, while the subplots go nowhere. So much wasted potential. This could have been a sleeper hit with a cult following. And it turned out to be bargain bin fodder that's just not worth watching. At all. Stay away.
Vincent If you take a cast of good comedians you might hope for some good jokes but there aren't many here.Moran is funny is his normal crazed way but the rest of the cast aren't. The script is poor with the dialogue being stilted and, more importantly, just dull.The acting is OK, it just isn't funny.The plot seems quite good if not especially original but the slapstick falls flat and there is nothing else to keep you interested.This was quite hard to watch to the end and the ending isn't really interesting enough to have bothered.
dbborroughs This film stars Dylan Moran and someone who's name and face I will try to block from memory (this non person also wrote the screenplay). It has something to do with an actor who has to deal with dead bodies and attempts to get work. Or something.I saw this as part of the IFC in Theaters cable service and all I can say is I'm so glad this was essentially a freebie since the movie was part of the service I already pay for. Actually the other thing I can say is this is only the second film I've seen from IFC Films that I can't understand how it got picked up for release.This is an unfunny film that made me stare at the screen wondering what I was supposed to be laughing at. Moran is a funny comedian, I'm a huge fan of his, but he's not the star some other guy is so I had to really suffer. The best way to describe this is as the sort of odd ultra dry humor that is so dry as to not be funny. Who did Neil Jordan owe that he got hooked up with the writer and star?(Jordan's attitude at the beginning is how I felt about the film) A waste of time
kosmasp Actually with a title like that and after the first few minutes you will catch the drift. The question if you will like were this is going or not, will depend on how much you like "dark humor". If you have seen quite a few of those movies, than you might anticipate quite a few things that will happen.Still it is done very good, many jokes are really exciting and the movie ends very well. One of the things that stuck out though, was the fact that this movie is Irish. Which means the guys playing this have a very unusual accent (for me and I'm sure for quite a few other guys), which also means, that I had some trouble getting every little thing that was said.The (inevitable) American Remake will come surely, but before that, make sure to watch this original!