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Vengeance (2022)

Comedy | 107 minutes
3,00 103 votes

Genre: Comedy / Mystery

Duration: 107 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: B.J. Novak

Stars: B.J. Novak, Boyd Holbrook and Issa Rae

IMDb score: 6,8 (40.196)

Releasedate: 29 July 2022

Vengeance plot

"Find the story before it finds you."

Ben Manalowitz is a journalist and podcaster from New York. He travels to western Texas to investigate the mysterious death of a young woman. The victim was someone he knew personally.

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mrklm

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Ben [BJ Novak] writes for The New Yorker and is proud of the number of "girlfriends" he has at the same time. Then Ty Shaw [Boyd Holbrook], the brother of Abilene [Lio Tipton], one of those casual girlfriends, calls him to say that Abilene has died. Ben can't come up with an acceptable excuse to avoid attending the funeral in a remote Texas town. Ben's editor [Issa Rae] urges him to make a podcast about his stay under the cynical working title of 'Dead White Girl'. The stay inevitably results in a clash of cultures, but Novak (the writer of the highly successful American version of The Office) intelligently defies expectations and mocks his own character more than the caricatured Texans he meets. As an actor, Novak is completely subservient to his co-stars. Full of excellent interpretations. Ashton Kutcher in particular makes a big impression in a role that gives him the chance to show once again why he was once one of the most popular actors in the world.

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james_cameron

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Fresh black comedy about an aspiring New York podcaster (BJ Novak) who travels to west Texas to investigate the mysterious death of an ex-girlfriend. Not all plot elements work equally well and the tone of the film is sometimes pretentious, but the hypothermic humor and the great acting of the entire cast (even Ashton Kutcher does an excellent job here) make up for it. And Boyd Holbrook's monologue about Liam Neeson is genius. All in all, a promising directorial debut from Novak.

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Collins

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A journalist named Ben becomes involved with a grieving family. The family believes that the deceased was Ben's girlfriend. Ben can only remember after much thought that the deceased woman was once a one-night stand of his. Since the woman died under shadowy circumstances, he sees an excellent opportunity to boost his collapsed career with an intriguing podcast. He leaves the family in the delusion and leaves for a rough corner of Texas where the hillbilly family resides. What follows is a nice humorous film.

The humor arises as a result of a culture clash. A big-city man finds himself in rural Texas. A liberal intellectual city dweller meets rugged gun-hungry countrymen. BJ Novak, who directs the film, wrote the screenplay and plays the lead role, reaps plenty of clichés. And that is of course sometimes a bit predictable, but always fun. It is also very nice that Novak does more than just exploit the clichés. He combines the humor with thriller elements. In this way he introduces some mystery and suspense to the film. By the way, don't think too much about it. The humor always prevails.

The comedy-thriller combination works well and is pleasant to watch. En passant there are some themes to think about, but always accompanied by irony. Prejudice, drug problems, segregation, failing authorities. Of those things. That's not very in-depth. And so the film is above all pleasant entertainment with fun characters and laughable situations.

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