Sunday, June 7, 2015

Tusk 2014


Tusk


     Wallace Bryton is a podcaster on a radio show.  He travels to Manitoba, Canada to do an interview of a man who has posted a YouTube video but it falls through.  Wallace sees a bulletin board ad in a convenience store and he decides there may be a story here he can checkout as a replacement.  He goes to the home of Howard Howe, he is a strange man, paralyzed and in a wheelchair with many adventure stories of his past to tell.  What Wallace doesn’t know is that Howe has given him a drug and he has entirely different plans for Wallace.
     This starts out very boring and then it turns ridiculous plus it is not funny?  There are a lot of scenes mocking Canadians, their love of hockey and their speech mannerisms.  Johnny Depp plays an irritating Inspector Clouseau type Canadian detective.  2* (I didn’t like this movie)

102 min, Comedy directed by Kevin Smith with Michael Parks, Justin Long, Genesis Rodriguez, Haley Joel Osment, Johnny Depp, Matthew Shively.

Note:  Imdb 5.5 out of 50, 39% critic 38% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2*.







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