It is a collection of events that the young man, who is exposed to a range of debts against him, speaks of. Events begin where the young man tries to hit his evil mother in order to get insurance. The young man did not just do so, but he hired a policeman who would spotlight the moon as a successful man who might try to kill his mother because he stumbled with his sister in a horrifying way.
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.
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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.
