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It's sporadically funny and it benefits from a talented cast, but 30 Minutes or Less suffers from a disjointed narrative, and too often mistakes crude gags for true lowbrow humor.
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The film contains a remarkable level of violence, yet never establishes a tone that would make it seem funny or truly shocking; the jokes flounder in an air of half-hearted spite. Dec 6, 2011 | Full Review…
The film contains a remarkable level of violence, yet never establishes a tone that would make it seem funny or truly shocking; the jokes flounder in an air of half-hearted spite.
Ben Sachs
Puerile, irritating and insultingly phallocentric. Sep 16, 2011 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Puerile, irritating and insultingly phallocentric.
Michael Leader
30 Minutes or Less has one of those screenplays that looks goodish on paper but is only a bit above average. Sep 16, 2011 | Rating: 2/5
30 Minutes or Less has one of those screenplays that looks goodish on paper but is only a bit above average.
Derek Malcolm
It's entirely ridiculous, but it gallops cheerfully along; everything is carried off with flair and ingenuity. Sep 15, 2011 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It's entirely ridiculous, but it gallops cheerfully along; everything is carried off with flair and ingenuity.
Peter Bradshaw
It's funny, clever and pacy to a fault, and the script more than satisfies its quota of decent zings. Sep 14, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's funny, clever and pacy to a fault, and the script more than satisfies its quota of decent zings.
David Jenkins
It never reconciles the meticulous intelligence needed to build the weaponry and the monstrous stupidity needed to use it. Aug 22, 2011 | Full Review…
It never reconciles the meticulous intelligence needed to build the weaponry and the monstrous stupidity needed to use it.
Richard Brody
Watching two bright but slightly clueless guys trying to get out of a bad situation is grand fun. Jan 7, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Watching two bright but slightly clueless guys trying to get out of a bad situation is grand fun.
Kelly Jane Torrance
30 Minutes or Less wasn't terrible and when it did make me laugh, it made me laugh a lot. It was just built on the wrong comic premise. Oct 23, 2017 | Full Review…
30 Minutes or Less wasn't terrible and when it did make me laugh, it made me laugh a lot. It was just built on the wrong comic premise.
Sarah Marrs
I guess it goes down easy enough, however bland and familiar. Kind of like a cheap pizza. Remember to tip your driver. May 12, 2015 | Full Review…
I guess it goes down easy enough, however bland and familiar. Kind of like a cheap pizza. Remember to tip your driver.
Sean Burns
Jesse Eisenberg goes from the smartest guy in the room in 'The Social Network' to the most gullible dork in the pizzeria. May 26, 2013 | Rating: D | Full Review…
Jesse Eisenberg goes from the smartest guy in the room in 'The Social Network' to the most gullible dork in the pizzeria.
Al Alexander
There's too much cheese, but there are still enough amusing action beats and funny one-liners to let one say "30 Minutes or Less" delivers, more or less on time. Jan 9, 2013 | Full Review…
There's too much cheese, but there are still enough amusing action beats and funny one-liners to let one say "30 Minutes or Less" delivers, more or less on time.
Roger Moore
30 Minutes Or Less has enough of both action and comedy to appeal to multiple demographics, and as far as crude comedies go it's a fun watch. Sep 23, 2012 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
30 Minutes Or Less has enough of both action and comedy to appeal to multiple demographics, and as far as crude comedies go it's a fun watch.
Amy Curtis
Pizza delivery boy Eisenberg gets cornered into robbing a bank that sets off a domino effect of comedy ... well, that was the intention, and they came THIS close. Still, it does manage not to offend yer sensibilities too much. Not bad.
Super Reviewer
This movie is so simple and so stupidly funny, that it is entertaining. I enjoyed every second of it. Despite its very clear flaws the movie's strongest points are also its weakest. The movie is choppy, crude, stupid, random, and I loved it.
The film has it's funny spots, but really does falter under the crude attempt to make it funnier than anticipated. 30 Minutes or Less provided loose chemistry among its duo of protagonists and antagonists regardless of the starpower. 3/5
"30 Minutes or Less" is a mixed bag to be sure, but it's also short and pretty sweet. The film's nimble running time definitely works in it's favor. There's some awkward dialogue here, and a flat scene there... but you also get a great comedic bank heist scene, a great extended cameo from Michael Pena, and Danny McBride's impeccable delivery (and all in under 80 minutes. Eisenberg and Ansari are pretty good too). As far as a good rental goes, you can't go wrong with this one.
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