Killer Joe (2012)

I guess if you come up with an idea for a movie it's not a bad idea to give it an ending, but it seems that someone just forgot this essential requirement. I've never been to Texas but if this one dimensional excursion into the lives of these rednecks is a true portrayal then it's a pretty sad one. I wonder if after the airing of this movie the Texas Tourist Board shut up shop for good. The movie os full of cliche's and this is what is so disappointing. There is nothing original or cutting edge about this film at all. It's really like they just gave up with it in the end and perhaps this explains why there is no real ending. No doubt one will be forthcoming when someone decides to release an updated version of the film.

Sorry Fridken and Letts. This is just a sick excuse to portray blue collar working class types as morons and amoral. Friedkin likes to feel that he understands working class blue collar types, and always identifies with the cops, union guys, killers, etc, that have helped him on his films, but Friedkin is full of s**t, always has been. He is in to power and prestige. Please don't condensed to trailer park people or blue collar types with this sadistic, sexualized and perverted film trash. There is more class in those people than you can forever hope to have. Write and direct movies about Beverly Hill types, that is where you are and who you are now.

Greetings from Lithuania."Killer Joe" (2011) left me speechless. Not that i loved it exactly, but this is expertly directed, expertly acted and superbly written thriller. Acting is superb by all involved. Plot was interesting, but script is so good that story becomes highly involving. It is also very funny movie at moments, but this is more dark humor. I didn't really liked the very ending, but it is interestingly made nevertheless.Overall, "Killer Joe" is definitely a very good movie. It has some shocking scenes and it is superbly crafted picture. It is bloody at the moments, but it not a gore fest.

Oscar-winning director William Friedkin, who gave us THE FRENCH CONNECTION and THE EXORCIST, gives us low-brow, trailer-trash Texas as he interprets Tracy Letts' screenplay of his stage play. A young drug dealer Chris(Emile Hirsch)has really screwed-up his already hard life. This story gets darker than dark, when his only hope to pay back money for drugs is to plot killing his own mother for the insurance payout. Chris talks his good-for-nothing father Ansel(Thomas Haden Church)to agree to hire Dallas police detective Joe Cooper(Matthew McConaughey) to do the dirty work. The cop moonlights as Killer Joe and he has strict rules to adhere to. Ansel figures no love lost on his ex-wife...enter into a contract for the hit.This trashy, black comedy gets nastier, when Chris can't come up with the advance money and Killer Joe demands Chris' pretty virgin sister, Dottie(Juno Temple), as collateral. Joe's sadistic, brutal and sexual side goes on display. When the insurance money doesn't become Chris' saving grace; Joe manipulates some family carnage. You may twist and squirm and may even gag once or twice. The redneck drama becomes very disturbing with multiple sequences of brutality(some sexual).McConaughey is manic bi-polar to the max. He brings his A game and I'm learning to appreciate him more. Gina Gershon plays Anasel's wife Sharla and she is outstanding for several reasons. She almost gives as much as she gets. Miss Temple could charm ticks off a hound. I am smitten. My favorite sequence is where Joe demands Dottie to put on her new black dress. R rating earned with violence, brutality, language, nudity and debauchery.Also in the cast: Jeff Galpin, Danny Epper and Marc Macaulay.