30 Minutes Or Less

30 Minutes Or Less

Comedy about pizza boy fails to deliver

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Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on November 2011

An ambition-free pizza delivery boy (a way miscast Jesse Eisenberg) is kidnapped by a pair of moronic thugs (Danny McBride and Nick Swardson), dressed in a bomb vest and told to rob a bank for them. Or something like that. I found this floundering, proudly stupid slacker comedy by Zombieland’s Ruben Fleisher to be colossally and consistently unfunny, and it looks cheap. Bland, charmless, unconvincing and frequently distasteful, this is the kind of movie that’s probably best enjoyed half-zonked in a frat house with a lot of beer on the floor. This one fails to deliver.