Slanted as a black comedy, but fails to secure the sufficiently outre tone (let alone any real suspense) needed to make it more than a middling retread.
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03/26/09
Clay Pigeons (1998)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:2
Rotten:7
Average Rating:5.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Joaquin Phoenix is Clay, a young Montana man who is distressed over the suicide of his friend, the wife of whom Clay was having an affair with. When he befriends a charismatic serial killer (Vince... [More]
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Joaquin Phoenix, Janeane Garofalo, Georgina Cates
Director: David Dobkin
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Reviews for Clay Pigeons
1 - 10 (sorted by date)
Top CriticNo review available.
04/12/02
Top Critic"You've got a sense of humor, I like that," Lester Long proclaims at one point. Well, we all like that, but would it be asking too much to have a little coherence to go along with it?
02/14/01
Top CriticClay Pigeons may not actually be a good movie, but it has many of the ingredients of one.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's got unpredictable plot twists and unexpected laughs coming out of dark corners.
01/01/00
Top CriticThis is one of those motion pictures where the director (David Dobkin, in his feature debut) and the writer (Matt Healy) are so concerned about developing a clever, serpentine plot that they forget that there has to be a credible ending.
01/01/00
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01/01/00
Top CriticWithin Clay Pigeons is a smaller story that might have involved us more, but it's buried by overkill.
01/01/00
Top CriticA film that delights by confounding expectations.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
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April 11, 2006:
"Crashers" Director to Battle the Undead
Filmmaker David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers, Clay Pigeons) has his next project lined up over at Universal: Based on a comic book series by Peter Lenkov, R.I.P.D. is a sci-fi... More...
February 27, 2006:
Vince Vaughn Gets His "Claus" Into a New Holiday Comedy
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