SWISS ARMY MAN
Occasionally a movie can be so deplorable that it’s surprisingly arresting and amusing to watch – but not in this instance.
Fans of the Harry Potter franchise will be repelled by Daniel Radcliffe’s latest choice of ‘quality’ film roles, where he plays a farting corpse who helps a man (Paul Dano) marooned on an island back to civilization. This vastly unfunny ‘alleged comedy’ is unashamedly overloaded with gross gutter-level toilet humour which exploits human bodily functions and is obnoxious and obscene.
In accepting this role not only has Radcliffe buried his Harry Potter image once and for all, but he may also have lost credibility as an actor and inadvertently killed off his own career.
Only a writer with such a virile imagination could have penned such a bizarre story in which audiences will be intimidated and encouraged to make an early rush for the cinema exits by a talking corpse who has irrelevant conversations about girlfriends, sex and masturbation.
Buried deep beneath this abhorrent rubble of nonsensical absurdity lies a fleeting moment of redemption where an intelligent and very relevant statement on society is delivered, but unfortunately it’s too little too late. (MMo)
★1/2
