funthing29 wrote:I saw this at a test screening ages ago and I thought it was decent enough felt the black comedy wasn't edgy enough and played it a bit safe. Farrell was underwhelming in the lead but I did enjoy Rockwell and Walken's performances.
Having seen the trailer months later, I found it very misleading and gives the audience the wrong impression of the film.
I was there at the test screening too, back in May! At the time we were told not to talk about it.
I actually thought it was quite good. The story was quite clever and the humour was quite dark. Just realised I used the word "quite" quite a lot! Christopher Walken was Christopher Walken. Colin Farrell and Woody Harrelson was also type cast. 7/10
We stayed behind to do the focus group as we were enticed by the £5 Apollo voucher, but the researcher was not interested in my views as I had ticked good on the form, whereas 5 people ticked excellent and 7 ticked very good and one person, fair. So he concentrated on those that said it was excellent and very good, and I discovered afterwards why, when at the end of the discussions, he asked towards the back of the room, if there were anything else they needed to know - he was actually asking the director! hmm, so that probably pleased him no end!

May be I should go and see it again to see if they had incorporated any of the comments.