I saw this movie last week and I was confused as to whether it was meant to be a dark comedy or just a bad serial killer movie. The main character is played by Ryan Reynolds, who has recently been outstanding as Deadpool, and even before I thought he did well as Green Lantern. Between the two movies he did a few others, including this bad comedy. There are elements of dark comedy, such as the fact that he is dressed in overly bright pink overalls for his job as a bathtub manufacturer. He talks to the animals around him and they talk back to him. But then, there are just bits where they forgot it was a comedy and they go a little dark, as in the flashback where he helped his mother die. Taking the 2nd girl to the house he grew up in lasted too long and was just creepy.
If I understood correctly, he killed his mom who was trying to kill herself with pills anyway, he was recently released and under the care of a psychiatrist who he talked with regularly. He has a crush on the office hottie, and she seems to like him, but she's kind of a flake and when he asks her out, she says yes, but blows him off to go do something else. Later that night, her car won't start, in a stroke of coincidence, it is raining hard and Ryan's character is passing by his workplace and sees her. Even though he has been at a restaurant waiting for her eating all night, she suggests they go eat at a greasy burger place, he cheers up and agrees. On their way, he hits a deer, and the deer is making a commotion stuck through the glass asking him to kill him. Ryan, because he knows what the deer needs, does as he tells him and sticks a knife thru its neck. Blood fills the cabin of the truck and the girl runs into the woods. Ryan's character chases after her yelling to calm down. Unfortunately, he has the knife in his hand and stabs her, accidentally. Instead of trying to save her, he keeps stabbing her until she dies.
When he gets back home, his cat calls him stupid and tells him he needs to hide the body. He goes back to get it, and in the next scene, he has like 20 or 30 Tupperware type containers all bloody, and her head in the fridge. From his point of view the apartment looks ok, like he cleaned up all the blood, but that is not so. Eventually, the head starts talking and joking with him, but she demands a friend because she is lonely in the fridge during the day, so "she" suggests he kill her friend. When she gets to his apartment, she sees all the blood everywhere and realizes what happened. He then has no choice but to kill her, it was a little gruesome. But the next scene shows the two heads getting along as friendly as ever. A third coworker goes over as she has figured out what is happening and the same thing happens to her.
By this point the guys at the office get involved, they go over look around and see the girl's cars and they know he had something to do with their disappearances. Instead of him collecting more bodies, they actually play it smart and call the cops. At this point he has confessed to his psychiatrist what he has done but he decides to take her hostage. The cops show up in time to save her, and he attempts to escape out a hole in the wall which leads to the building next door, might be an apartment over a bowling alley or something. He kicks a gas line open in the escape and eventually the cops make everything blow up. He is in and out of consciousness, until he finds himself dancing with his mom, dad, and the three girls he killed.
The dog and cat banter was funny, his fantasy sequence when he was getting up the nerve to ask the hottie was good, but the rest of the movie was kind of bad, he killed way too many people. I really wanted to like it, normally I like this small independent type movies.
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