"Who's dick is it?"
A young man, Chris (Emile Hirsch) in debt to a drug dealer
and his father Ansel (Thomas
Haden Church )
decide to hire a contract killer known as Killer Joe (Matthew McConaughey) to
kill Chris’ mother in order to claim $50,000 life insurance money. Unable to
pay upfront, Joe suggests taking Chris’ innocent young sister Dottie (Juno Temple )
as a retainer, something that doesn’t sit easily with Chris.
This is a darkly comic and extremely violent film which is
likely to repulse some and delight others. There were several walk outs in the
packed screening I was in and many audible gasps as well as perhaps the biggest
laugh I’ve ever heard in a cinema. For an example of how it will polarize
people I turned to my girlfriend on the way out and said “what did you think?”
She replied “I hated it. It was awful. One star”. I on the other hand thought
it was excellent.