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Big Nothing (2006)

Comedy | 86 minutes
3,16 530 votes

Genre: Comedy / Thriller

Duration: 86 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Jean-Baptiste Andrea

Stars: David Schwimmer, Simon Pegg and Alice Eve

IMDb score: 6,7 (32.252)

Releasedate: 1 December 2006

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Big Nothing plot

"They wrote the book on how not to be criminals."

A frustrated unemployed teacher Charlie (David Schwimmer) decides to throw himself into a blackmail case with swindler Gus (Simon Pegg) and his girlfriend. However, nothing goes according to plan and the greatest possible disorder ensues.

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avatar van lars-pixar

lars-pixar

  • 1456 messages
  • 3769 votes

'One and the other is followed by the one and the other'

An hour and a half is filled with many unexpected twists and turns in this British crime comedy.
It all starts very quickly and immediately grabs the viewer with an exciting scene in the house, with the corpse , the agent, the DVDs[/spoiler ] and many other unexpected moments.
Later in the film it seems that the director has even more in store, the bag of tricks then gets its chance to show even more.
The viewer is well entertained and is kept busy throughout the film, I think it was a bit over the top with surprising twists at the end, but that didn't confuse it.
The total picture is dressed by the casting, Simon Pegg, David Schwimmer and Alice Eve.
So really recommended!

3.0*

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avatar van sinterklaas

sinterklaas

  • 11741 messages
  • 3278 votes

Heavy laugh film!

Jean-Baptiste Andrea, whom I remember from the subcutaneously exciting and very successful Dead End, knows how to reuse the elements with Big Nothing, a typical klutz film about a very early demented ex-teacher and a swindler, which is again very nicely portrayed by Simon Pegg. They get an offer, in a false and devious way, to get very rich in one evening, from a crazy teenager. Blackmailing a pedophile priest who can be found regularly on child pornography sites is an easy job and Charlie and Gus take it for a spin. Only then everything really goes wrong, and they end up in a spectacle where nothing is really about nobody as it seems. Everyone seems to be hiding something.

And that is again portrayed here in a wonderful, dark and gloomy way and many moments are rubbed nice and hard in your face (I already thought that snuff and the church would go together). I already said it at Dead End; that the film is directed by a Frenchman is very clear very quickly. But luckily there is also plenty to laugh about and the humor is razor sharp. The settings are also nice and cold and bleak, with behind all that craziness, the film also radiates a lot of sluggishness and hopelessness.

Great mood-changing comedy. Not really suitable for 12 years and older, as it says on the cover.

4.0*

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avatar van Woland

Woland

  • 4509 messages
  • 3637 votes

Well entertained with this comedy, with certainly some thriller elements, which nevertheless starts a bit difficult. With a lot of absurd twists and turns, we follow a crime plan that gets further and further in the soup, and because of the fast pace and the many surprising twists you won't get bored. It's not really that funny, but it doesn't have to be, and I think David Schwimmer is a tiresome actor who plays exactly the same type as Ross from Friends. Nevertheless, a nice story at a nice pace with a cast where the non-Schwimmers more than make up for it.

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