Ex Drummer Reviews
Top CriticThe visual dexterity exhibited by Mr. Mortier, in his feature debut, and his cinematographer, Glynn Speeckaert, may keep you watching if not necessarily involved.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Film Threat
One of those rare films that still manages to haunt you long after you leave the theatre, for people who like that kind of thing.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Guardian [UK]
Bizarre, horribly violent and frequently brilliant black comedy from Belgium.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Empire Magazine
This grungy anti-musical will offend just about everyone with its attitude towards women, gays, kids, and the elderly.
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| Original Score: 3/5
ViewLondon
A punk film in more ways than one, Ex Drummer is sordid, relentlessly nihilistic and extremely violent, but it's also impressively directed and unlike anything else you'll see this year.
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| Original Score: 4/5
european-films.net
Because of the continuous barrage of swear words, bloody violence and explicit sex, distribution beyond its home country will be difficult, but industry professionals should all note the director's name, however: M-O-R-T-I-E-R.
The flashy adaptation of the book by aging Belgian provocateur Herman Brusselmans is as systematically offensive and boisterously vulgar as its degenerate punk protagonists. Or at least that's the aim.
A thoroughly offensive and often hilarious punk requiem about rape, murder, violence, kinky sex, drugs, destruction, bad manners and rock 'n' roll -- not necessarily in that order.
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| Original Score: 2/4
This is London
Hard to watch, and even harder to enjoy unless the music and almost pathological eccentricity takes your fancy.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Independent
Women, gays and old people get a pretty rough ride, though given the film's minuscule target audience it shouldn't really bother them.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Daily Telegraph
A violent and self-conscious exercise in punk nihilism.
Film4
Visually exhilarating but also purposefully - and pointlessly - outrageous. Not for the faint hearted.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
The film, so desperate in its attempts to shock the viewer through showing the dark side of humanity, is crippled by the fact that the characters are so thinly drawn they have no depth to them.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Film Scouts
Ex Drummer is a mess of a film, a tawdry, bizarre tale that has enough visual style to set it apart, barely, from being a complete waste of several hours of your life.
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| Original Score: D-
Signaling a new low in post-modern smug superiority, Ex Drummer tries to pass off contempt as comedy and slanted lensing as creativity.
