This film doesn’t quite manage to live up to its title, but it comes pretty close. At just 83 minutes it’s fast, furious and hugely entertaining – the ideal movie to see early doors on a Saturday evening to get you ready to go out out.
Jesse Eisenberg plays Nick, a 20-something pizza delivery driver (“your pizza in 30 minutes or less”) who gets kidnapped by bumbling goons Danny McBride and Nick Swardson. They strap a bomb to him and force him to hold up a bank for $100,000.
As with The Change Up, no one here is taking the plot all that seriously, it’s mainly just an opportunity to do a few jokes and slap some phat tunes on the soundtrack (the end credits roll to the sound of ODB’s ‘Got your money’, featuring possibly the greatest ever lyric in Hip Hop; “I don’t have no problem with you fucking me, but I have a little problem with you not fucking me..”)
There’s some really funny stuff here, especially from rising star Aziz Ansari who plays Nick’s best friend guilt-tripped into helping him rob the bank. Eisenberg is also pretty great, back to doing comedies after his tour de force in The Social Network last year. Early on, his character actually references that film with a nice little in-joke how much he hates Facebook – although this was entirely spoiled for me by the gales of dick film critic laughter it provoked throughout the cinema (this is where you laugh, turn around to see how much the people around you are laughing, and then make yourself laugh even louder to show that you really get the reference).
Also Danny McBride (Eastbound & Down) is his usual foul-mouthed self and does a good line in sweary metaphors – I definitely want to use the phrase “I’m the one fucking this bitch, you’re just holding the camera” in a project management-based context very soon.
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