Title: Why bother?
Product review: I pride myself on having a black sense of humor, and when a friend whose taste I trust raved about "The Cook, The Thief, etc", I went along willingly. The opening segments were dark and scatalogical, and I thought I was in for a treat. Wrong-O! A pointless and perverse plot made me wish I'd gone to see something interesting, like "Our Friend, Mildew" or "The Wit and Wisdom of Attorney General John Mitchell". In a climactic finish to the film, when the writer & director could used suspense, and hinted at the finish, they instead smash the viewer over the head. Of the 5 people I saw this film with, only 2 were around at the end. My friend said afterwards, "I'm sorry you didn't like the movie." I replied, "I'm sorry you did." I'll put it this way, this is not nearly as much fun as "Killing Fields".
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