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Best movie of this year hands down!

Powerful

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

A great 90s time capsule that is high energy, rather unconventional and filled with some performances that are so likable (Sawa, Alba, Seth Green and Foggy Nelson) that you forgive it for its silly plot and tonal weirdness. I was struck with how Sawa's possessed-hand-acting was on point and really elevates those scenes.

Waking up one morning, a teen-slacker learns his parents have been murdered and his right has been possessed by the Devil and is carrying on a murderous spree across town, forcing him to find a way of stopping it.This was quite an underrated horror comedy with some enjoyable elements. One of the better features here is the fact that this one still manages to be an extremely effective horror outing while using the comedy to its most effective points. The drug humor with his freak-outs, hallucinations and misconceptions about reality contort with the actual horror set-ups that result when he's sober again as the big revelation scene about his parents to his friends which leads into their own attack throughout the house that's insanely hilarious while being utilized by gruesome actions throughout which causes even more great fun in the scene. As well, there's a lot of fun to be had from the film's last half which again features plenty of hilariously gruesome and horrific moments here as there's the rather bloody encounter with the cops, the main sequence of the group dismembering his hand and then going around trashing the house trying to stop it and the few odd interludes of him chasing after the truth about his condition all feature some rather enjoyable comedy while still trying to be scary. The best segments are the finale, as the dance is interrupted and causes nice confusion and chaos as well as the frantic stalking through the tunnels provide this with the appropriate suspense while bringing back the comedy and horror aspects as it winds through its final resolution. All in all this gives the film some rather bloody deaths to go with this fine mix of horror and comedy which manages to be quite the effective mixture, and is able to hold this up against the film's only real flaw. The big issue with this one is the fact that there's no real reasoning given for the rampage behind the hands' motives. This one states that there's a purpose for it as for how it goes about the different sprees around the country, and all we get is a throwaway line when she connects the pieces on the map, yet that's all in here and leaves this one feeling rather underwhelming. There's a minor issue here as well with the film's opening half featuring so much drug humor and comedy that it might seem a bit over-the-top for those who are completely underwhelmed by such inclusions as this is a take-it-or-leave-it feature which potentially makes this section completely bland and lifeless. Otherwise, this is quite a bit of fun.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity, a brief sex scene and pervasive drug use and humor.

Lazy Anton is too stoned to realize his hand has become possessed and murdered his parents. Despite blood on the floor and pieces of them like their eyes scattered about the house, he's completely unaware and it's business as usual for Anton - getting high from his makeshift bowl that he turned his asthma inhaler into and laying on the couch eating poorly and watching TV. His two dim bulb friends, one of which is a miscast Seth Green, aren't much help figuring out what's going on and quickly meet a gruesome end by the hand. An inspired gag is that his two friends return as rotting corpses, because it was too far to walk through the bright tunnel to heaven. Devon Sawa does some good physical comedy, the film is never serious for a second and there is a substantial amount of gore that is well done. A concert at the school dance with Offspring, hasn't aged well and didn't exactly scream quality back in '99 either and Vivica A. Fox could basically be cut from the film and not much would be impacted. Idle Hands is gleefully ridiculous and it's unfortunate critics had their knives out for this one and it tanked at the box office.

People use to classify this movie as a comedy/horror picture, but in my point of view, it's none. For instance, filmmakers try all they can to deliver some fun scenes, but they turn out to be just normal and never really funny! Horror scenes surely don't scare, considering the movie's main subject-- a killing hand with a mind of its own. Sometimes it's pleasant to see Devon Sawa straining to make his job, but script is too poorly written to deliver any good material. The one-- and ONLY-- thing to "praise" about the movie is the originality of the plot, since nothing besides that ever satisfies! If you're looking for funny horror movies, maybe 2000's "Cherry Falls" is a better choice, albeit not perfect film as well. Just pass "Idle Hands". I couldn't even make it to the end.