Movie #566 "Carnage" is a don't bother movie in this academy- award -picture -ladened season. Maybe you can rent it further on down the year when it comes out on DVD, but there are so many good movies out there right now, you really don't need to see this one. Dave and I saw this play ("God of Carnage" ) when it was on Broadway, and not getting to see the original four people who played in it, we came out thinking that the people we saw didn't really connect all that well, and therefore it wasn't as funny. Now in the movie, we had 4 competent people, and though it does have some good moments, and the cast is really very good, it still isn't all that funny. It's kind of like George and Martha (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) , peppered with some jokes, in that it is pretty mean-spirited. As one of the characters puts it so well by the end of the play, who really cares? And I'm afraid this audience member felt the same way by the end of the film (which is, incidentally, one of its most unsuccessful moments).
I rated this 3 stars out of 5
Carnage
(2011) R
In this comic drama from director Roman Polanski, two sets of parents meet in the aftermath of an incident in which one of their children bullied the other. As the evening progresses, the adults confront each other in increasingly hostile ways.
Genre:Dramas, Foreign Movies, Foreign Dramas, French Movies, French Dramas
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