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Admirable film.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

I love Danny McBride in pretty much everything else I've ever seen him in but I couldn't stand this movie. I made myself get through the whole thing constantly reminding myself that it had to get better but it just never did.There were a couple of pretty good jokes that made me laugh a bit, like the guy on the floor in the bank and the ink packs were definitely funny parts. But overall it was just one bad joke after another. Too bad because the premise is great, that two guys kidnap a pizza delivery boy, strap a bomb vest to him with a timer and also remote detonator, and tell him to rob a bank and get $100,000 for them by that night or he'd blow up.I also like Jesse Eisenberg in the few things I've seen him in, but just couldn't stand this movie at all. I guess it's probably huge fun for potheads, but overall it's just one bad joke after another, and pretty predictable.

I had no idea what to expect, and found myself laughing immediately. The honest (and crude of course) conflict between the two heroes was the driving force in this movie. You knew they would eventually be friends again. As for the anti-hero, his parallel conflict with his buddy was just as entertaining. The stupidity of their criminal minds was unexpected at every turn (just when you thought he was stupid, he outdid himself). The former Marine dad was a funny addition. Anyway, I see a lot of negative reviews and found that they were missing the intent of the film, that is, to entertain and keep you in suspense while keeping you laughing at the idiocy of it all.

This film is one of many films that are very similar these days and that just explains why there is hardly any effort put into this film at all. The story sees this average guy Nick who is down on his luck until he is kidnapped by a couple of psychos and forced to commit a crime or else they will blow him up. Now Jesse eisenberg did a decent job here, I do believe there was possibly better people for the role but he did an alright job in the role just don't expect this to be the role where you understand why he is now lex luthor. The supporting cast has its good and bad, Danny McBride plays one of the psychos and he does a good job like he is good at always doing in films like this. Eisenberg's best friend is also good with the duo having good chemistry that carries this film. Other then that though I mean McBride's partner and eisenberg's romance are totally underused and suffer from being ultimately insignificant. The story in this film is just bad, the first 20 mins are terrible with the film being choppy and not deciding where it wanted to go, also plot lines were not detailed enough for you to care at all. The scripts alright with the dialogue being sometimes good but their are other times where it totally sucks and you wonder why you are bothering. The style is so copy and paste with other films like this that it frustrates me, however, there is once scene that is really funny but does not make up for the overall picture. Overall this film is not necessary to see and just stick to a Seth rogen comedy instead.

The premise of this film held a lot of promise and I honestly believe that with better writing that it could have turned out to be a really good film. Alas, it turned out to be one of the worst films I've seen.I'll come back to the writing problems later in the review, but first I'll discuss my other issues with this film such as;CHARACTERS & ACTORS - Jesse Eisenberg annoys me and for me he just seems to be another Seth Rogen in terms of his characters and actors being interchangeable between films. He just seems to have no range at all and very little talent as far as I'm concerned. Then we come to his sidekick Chet (played by Aziz Ansari) - he managed to be even more annoying than Eisenberg which I felt was incredible. I think the worst scene involving these 2 characters was the scene where they trade insults where they were trying to out insult one another. This scene culminated in a childish scuffle and just wasn't funny at all. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that it was painfully unfunny. WRITING -Dwayne and Travis (Danny McBride and Nick Swardson)are the 2 men who coerce Eisenberg into robbing a bank. They plan to use $100,000 of the stolen money to hire a hit-man to kill Dwayne's father The Major (Fred Ward)in order for Dwayne to get his father's inheritance so that he can set up a tanning salon. Based on the amount of time that Dwayne and Travis spend discussing this tanning salon you would think that it would have some relevance to the plot, but no it just seemed to be a plot device that served no purpose. So it begs the question; why did the writers waste their own time and our time factoring this in when it served no purpose? I also thought it was stupid that Ansari was able to sneak up on a trained hit-man and knock him to the ground. This resulted in Eisenberg stealing the money back from him. All this happened when the hit-man had his gun pointed at Eisenberg. It stretches credibility that a civilian with no formal training could get the better of a trained assassin so easily.The final 10 minutes of the film were also completely ridiculous and I'll admit that I laughed, but ironically I was laughing at how bad it was.The only good thing about this film was Fred Ward, but unfortunately he was only given limited screen time and limited material which was a shame because he was pretty funny in the brief screen time he was afforded. I suspect that due to the fact that he was only on screen for 5-10 minutes that this was probably just a pay cheque film for Ward. Although he was good, I doubt it's a film he'll look back on fondly due to how awful 30 minutes or less was as a whole.Mercifully this film is only about 82 minutes long (although it felt a lot longer). 30 minutes or less is an unfunny stupid film and it's only Fred Ward that has prevented it from getting a 1 out of 10. Avoid at all costs!!!!