Killer Joe
| release date | July 27 2012 |
| studio | LD Entertainment |
| director | William Friedkin |
| writer | Tracy Letts |
| starring | Matthew McConaughey, Juno Temple, Emile Hirsch, Thomas Haden Church, Gina Gershon |
| rating | NC-17 |
| tagline | When 22-year-old Chris (Emile Hirsch) finds himself in debt to a drug lord, he hires a hit man to dispatch his mother, whose $50,000 life insurance policy benefits his sister Dottie (Juno Temple). Chris finds Joe Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a creepy, crazy Dallas cop who moonlights as a contract killer. When Chris can't pay Joe upfront, Joe sets his sight on Dottie as collateral for the job. The contract killer and his hostage develop an unusual bond. Like from a modern-day, twisted fairy tale, "Killer Joe" Cooper becomes the prince to Dottie's Cinderella. Based on the play by Pulitzer and Tony Award winner Tracy Letts, "Killer Joe" is a garish, proactive black comedy from Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) and stars Emile Hirsch, Matthew McConaughey, Juno Temple, Thomas Hayden Church, and Gina Gershon. |
8 Comments
Very suprised there are no reviews for this movie yet. I had been waiting for this movie for months as I missed the cinema viewing.
I finally got to watch the movie and was extremely let down, McConaughey plays the part very well, great acting skills. But the story itself fell really short of itself and quickly turned into a perverted molestation movie, I was not expecting such a thing in this movie and i felt it ruined the movie to be honest. I liked the concept of a law officer that doubled as a contract killer, very little of playing both sides of the law appeared in this movie. The trailer intrigued, but the movie itself failed to deliver what it was advertising.
It does not do what it says on the tin, I enjoy twists and hidden treasures but not this one.