If you’re interested in seeing tons of fake blood on a day that’s not Halloween, you should check out “Cheap Thrills.” For anyone else, this film is simply not worth it.
Craig (Pat Healy) is a new father who is down on his luck. He wakes up to find a final eviction notice on his door and then gets fired later that day. He runs into his old friend, Vince (Ethan Embry) at a bar, where the pair meets a couple willing to pay them to do crazy stunts. David Koechner (Champ from “Anchorman”) gives a good performance, while his on-screen wife, Sara Paxton, played a more realistic and relatable character when she was the mermaid in “Aquamarine.”
This dark comedy certainly has some funny lines here and there, but it is not enough to make up for the horribly disgusting scenes. The tasks that Vince and Craig are paid to do keep getting bigger and more dramatic, but there’s nothing particularly clever or witty about them—everything is mere shock value. The situation is humorous, but not enough to support eighty-five minutes of content.
There’s no doubt that times are tough and people will do anything for money—but do we really need a movie to tell us that?
Grade: D Runtime: 85 minutes See if you liked: “American Psycho”
