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When a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance. He then hires a cop who moonlights as a hit man who is willing to kill his mother for a tumble with his virginal sister.
This Southern-fried, darkly humorous trailer-trash exploitation crime noir revels in the greedy characters' idiocy and the deranged story's psychosexual luridness.
Watching "Killer Joe" to the bitter end is like playing the Pick 6 lottery and getting three of the numbers right. You don't win anything, but you still think you're smarter than all those other idiots.
The movie frequently clicks as a sendup of over-the-top film-noir storytelling.
August 16, 2012
Film School Rejects
The tone in Killer Joe feels so expertly and delicately crafted that we only laugh at the film's absurd scenarios if and when the filmmaker permits it so.
You end up feeling sorry for all the actors forced to humiliate themselves, except for McConaughey, whose portrayal of sadistic, manipulative evil is mesmerizing.
If you like your movies filled with twisted humor, sexual perversion, psychological intimidation and sudden violence, "Killer Joe" is the flick for you.