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The Darwin Awards

The Darwin Awards (2006)

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Critic Reviews: 3
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When a San Francisco homicide detective with a keen eye for criminal profiling is fired for botching the arrest of a notorious serial killer, his subsequent effort to reinvent himself as an insurance claims case-investigator leads him to study a series of perplexing wrongful deaths in this comedy starring Joseph Fiennes, Winona Ryder, Tim Blake Nelson, and Wilmer Valderrama. Michael Burrows (Fiennes) isn't your typical detective. Though Detective Burrows is a paranoid obsessive-compulsive who

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Jul 31, 2007

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The humor dissipates as we watch one weird death after another.

September 7, 2007 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
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Taylor and his friends seem to be having a great time but could have let the audience in on the joke.

January 31, 2006
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Sports too many formulaic weaknesses of mainstream laffers while straining for an indie cred that hitherto came naturally to writer-director Finn Taylor.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Variety
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A delightful, winning tribute to those annual kudos given to people who died from sheer stupidity, thereby improving the gene pool.

September 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

If writer/director Finn Taylor could have made up his mind about the movie he was making, it would have held together better.

September 9, 2007 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures
7M Pictures

Likely to find an audience only in those sickos titillated by gratuitous depictions of fatalities.

August 27, 2007 Full Review Source: EURWeb
EURWeb

Just a voyeuristic excuse to watch people die in different ways.

August 27, 2007 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comments (2)
NewsBlaze

The extras include a fairly thorough 'making of' featurette.

August 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

Writer/ director Finn Taylor's problem is that he wrote a painfully weak script, mostly wasting both acting talent and funny stories in the process.

August 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

tries so very hard but just doesn't manage to be very funny

August 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com
Filmcritic.com

Will probably deserve a Darwin Award itself after dying quietly at the box office and thus strengthening the art of filmmaking in general.

February 27, 2006 Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com
EricDSnider.com

While the film has some funky flaws, it's a terrific satire and is downright hilarious.

February 7, 2006 Full Review Source: Film Threat
Film Threat

It's not the diversion from source material that bothers me; it's the way in which the diversions are bland, listless, annoyingly familiar, and patently unengaging.

January 30, 2006 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
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Audience Reviews for The Darwin Awards

Pretty good comedy based on the popular series of books. I loved the books, and I thought this film captured the feel of the series very well. Of course the film is nothing compared to the series, but it still is a very funny film that has plenty of good laughs throughout the film. The film succeeds at adapting the most popular stories from the book, but it is far from perfect. The film has a good cast of actors who deliver fine performances. However the film does fall flat a few times, not many but a few. In any case, this is simply put a mindless film that is a pleasant viewing on a Friday night when there's nothing else better on. This is an enjoyable film, and as a reader of the series, I felt that they had key elements of the stories well in hand, and I thought it was creative how they tied everything together. Even with that said this is a film that is far from perfect, but is also an underrated comedy isn't as bad as the initial reviews. The performances and good comedy make this film good and worth watching and if you're in the mood for something good and enjoyable, this is a good film to watch. Director Finn Taylor has done a great job with bringing the books to the screen, and it works most of the time very well. I really liked the film, and thought it very entertaining but flawed. Still this is a film that is worth checking out.
July 6, 2012
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Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Winona Ryder, David Arquette, Chris Penn, Max Perlich, Brad Hunt, Tim Blake Nelson, Julianna Margulies, Tom Hollander, Juliette Lewis, Nora Dunn, Lukas Haas, Ty Burrell, Judah Friedlander, Wilmer Valderrama, Alessandro Nivola, D.B. Sweeney, Mickey Breitenstein, Josh Kornbluth

Director: Finn Taylor

Summary: When his tendency to faint at the sight of blood becomes a liability, detective Michael Burrows (Joseph Fiennes) finds himself out of a job. Fortunately, the perceptive profiler has no trouble peddling his skills to an insurance company. Teaming up with field agent Siri Taylor (Winona Ryder), Michael attempts to identify people who might accidentally kill themselves out of sheer stupidity.

My Thoughts: "It''s a very funny quirky film. It's full of odd character's, especially the lead played hilariously by Joseph Fiennes. Winona Ryder is great in this as well. I miss her in films. The movie actually has a very big cast with a variety of actor's. You are shown how doing some pretty dumb thing's can so easily end your life. Though I think the shower scene is the funniest part in the film for me. The film is much better then what the summary describes it to be. It was a great surprise at how much I enjoyed the film and how much I laughed. Great movie for a slow day or night."
September 7, 2009
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