Very Bad Things is a deliciously nasty morality tale that simply warns viewers that what goes around comes around.
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06/29/08
Very Bad Things (1998)
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Reviews Counted:49
Fresh:21
Rotten:28
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Mean-spirited and empty.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: When a group of friends go to Las Vegas for a bachelor party, things begin to go wrong when the party's stripper dies. Attempting to cover up her death only leads to greater, and grislier,... [More]
Starring: Jon Favreau, Cameron Diaz, Christian Slater, Peter Berg
Director: Peter Berg
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Reviews for Very Bad Things
A scabrous black comedy like no other I've ever seen...
01/01/00
It's entertaining to a degree, but lacks all of the elements necessary to form a truly compelling motion picture.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe trouble is that Berg doesn't seem sure how to draw matters to a close.
03/03/02
Shameless, eager-to-shock energy, with a crafty script and a flawless ensemble cast to match, make this beyond-black comedy a very good thing indeed.
01/01/00
Peter Berg's Very Bad Things isn't a bad movie, just a reprehensible one.
01/01/00
Top CriticThere are some hysterically funny bits, but the excessive violence sometimes kills the laughter.
01/09/02
He [Berg] stages several legitimately funny moments of ghoulish humor and builds the comic and dramatic tension to a hilariously out-of-control finale.
01/01/00
A Swiftian satire on white yuppies -- it's American Psycho with five psychos.
07/24/07
The gross-out humor lacks edge, the guilt never kicks in, and the outrages are predictable. It's one flat brewski.
01/01/00
Top CriticVery Bad Things is a well-constructed study of the human psyche and how it eventually cracks under intense pressure.
01/01/00
a blood-soaked parody of the American dream
02/27/01
Berg ... brings wit, energy and a twisted kind of joy to a story that's little more than a tasteless anecdote.
01/01/00
Top Critic...the film wages a war against one's moral senses in a story that's unforgettable.
06/05/02
It's the eternal question.
01/01/00
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.
06/22/09
...Berg's listless direction brings the film so little point of view that it doesn't much matter who lives or dies.
01/01/00
Top CriticHis [Berg] one serious mistake is to confuse gore with terror.
10/15/02
...one of the more effective black comedies to come around in quite some time.
10/13/07
The most delightfully morbid film of the year, a movie that goes so far over the deep end with its outrageousness and violence that I couldn't help but be won over by the material.
01/01/00
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