I'm usually on board for the Seth Rogen Express, but this movie turns into a train wreck rather quickly. If you haven't see it, I'm not sure what to tell you. It's an odd flick, one of those "I'm not sure what the F I am, so I'll be everything" types, and those usually don't work, see Club Dread for a perfect example. The movie deals with a loser of a Mall Security Guard and his antics as he tries to solve a case of a flasher, get the girl of dreams, and possibly become a real cop, none of which works out quite the way he expects. I guess it tries to tell a tale of what happens when you try and fail at things you hold dear to you, but it does a terrible job of getting there.
The problem is you don't know if director Jody Hill is trying to make a comedy or a drama. The first half of the film is certainly comedy, with a few chuckles here and there, but it soon breaks down to just being a flawed-humans-on-parade show, and then further into the mental breakdown of Rogen's character. By the end, it's just too weird, and I didn't care anymore. The ending is overly violent, and just doesn't make sense or is realistic, which it felt like it was steering towards.
All that said, there's a few redeeming qualities here starting Rogen's decent performance as a guy with serious mental issues and aggressive tendencies. Some of the other supporters do an OK job, with the exception of Anna Faris who's terrible here. The action scenes do hearken back to older movies, and you can tell a few are direct tributes, which play out rather fine.
That said, I still can't recommend this movie. The laughs feel forced a lot of the time, and it's just too mishmashed to be coherent. Feel free to give it a rent if you need to get your Rogen on, but don't blame me with the results.
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