Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 52
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 29
Mean-spirited and empty.
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 9
Mean-spirited and empty.
liked it
Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 33,674
Peter Berg made his directorial debut with this black comedy about suburbanite Kyle Fisher (Jon Favreau), his future bride Laura (Cameron Diaz) and his four pals -- brothers Adam (Daniel Stern) and Michael (Jeremy Piven), mechanic Charles (Leland Orser), and real estate agent Robert (Christian Slater). Kyle and gang head off to a stag-party fling in Vegas. The fun features hired stripper Tina (Carla Scott), killed accidentally during a bathroom make-out session with Michael. When a hotel
Nov 25, 1998 Wide
Apr 27, 1999
PolyGram
All Critics (65) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (29) | DVD (10)
Berg is so in love with his escalating shock tactics that they quickly cease to shock.
...hollow, simple-minded and about as profound an experience as stepping in a pile of road kill.
It's entertaining to a degree, but lacks all of the elements necessary to form a truly compelling motion picture.
Berg ... brings wit, energy and a twisted kind of joy to a story that's little more than a tasteless anecdote.
It's extremely lousy material, but these guys make the most of it.
...Berg's listless direction brings the film so little point of view that it doesn't much matter who lives or dies.
Disappointing film, directed by a good actor, Peter Berg, who thinks his tale is clever and witty
Very Bad Things is a horrible hoot. It is one of those movies that put you through the wringer. It doesn't tickle the funny bone -- it pulverizes it. You don't know whether to laugh, gasp, or walk out.
Very Bad Things is a deliciously nasty morality tale that simply warns viewers that what goes around comes around.
...one of the more effective black comedies to come around in quite some time.
A Swiftian satire on white yuppies -- it's American Psycho with five psychos.
A vicious, disturbing black comedy that delivers a wickedly entertaining ride if you don't take it too seriously.
His [Berg] one serious mistake is to confuse gore with terror.
...the film wages a war against one's moral senses in a story that's unforgettable.
I loved this dark comedy. It's full of very bad stuff, but it's all so horribly funny at the same time. Plus, the cast is great. If you have a sick sense of humour, see this movie.
September 6, 2010Super Reviewer
Boyd: The room is covered in blow; Moore looks like he went at it with a fuckin' mountain lion. "They've been bad. Very bad."I really liked Very Bad Things for what it was. It's an over-the-top, ridiculous and savage dark, dark comedy. I can totally understand why a lot of people are easily turned off by this movie and
August 7, 2011
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