The Darwin Awards (2006)
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 12
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 9
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Critic Reviews: 3
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 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
Jul 5, 2006 Wide
Jul 31, 2007
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All Critics (12) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (11) | DVD (9)
The humor dissipates as we watch one weird death after another.
Top CriticTaylor and his friends seem to be having a great time but could have let the audience in on the joke.
Sports too many formulaic weaknesses of mainstream laffers while straining for an indie cred that hitherto came naturally to writer-director Finn Taylor.
A delightful, winning tribute to those annual kudos given to people who died from sheer stupidity, thereby improving the gene pool.
If writer/director Finn Taylor could have made up his mind about the movie he was making, it would have held together better.
Likely to find an audience only in those sickos titillated by gratuitous depictions of fatalities.
Just a voyeuristic excuse to watch people die in different ways.
The extras include a fairly thorough 'making of' featurette.
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.
tries so very hard but just doesn't manage to be very funny
Will probably deserve a Darwin Award itself after dying quietly at the box office and thus strengthening the art of filmmaking in general.
While the film has some funky flaws, it's a terrific satire and is downright hilarious.
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.
Audience Reviews for The Darwin Awards
Super Reviewer
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."
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