Directed by: Kevin Smith
Released: 2011
first off, this is not a horror movie, and i'm kind of annoyed with kevin smith for promoting it as such. just because a film has violence and gore doesn't make it horror. anyway.. three kids trying to get laid end up being kidnapped by a westboro-baptist-church-type-family. the ATF gets wind that these people have a shitload of illegal, military grade weapons, so they get involved. there's a massive shootout between the church and the ATF, and that's pretty much it. obviously, there's more to it, but that's the gist of it. save for the preacher (played brilliantly by michael parks), the characters are relatively uninteresting and have little to no development. it feels like kevin smith had a cool idea, ran with it, and got lost along the way. with some better direction and a few more decent actors (even john goodman as the ATF agent wasn't all that impressive, and i usually love his work), this could have been a lot better. it wasn't awful, but it wasn't great. kevin smith -- stick to comedies. but travel back to the mid-90's first. 6/10.
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