That's a good review title, right?Killer Joe is so assertively ballsy with such an intense streaming focus. The character dialogue is pure genius. I had to look up who wrote this movie while watching it the first time - Tracy Letts, who also wrote the original Broadway play, Tracy, what a sick beautiful mind you have. The story is solid. The characters aren't too consistently believable, especially THChurch as the dad. I didn't know William Friedkin, and that he directed The Exorcist and The French Connection. William, what a strong versatile lens you have.Killer Joe has plenty of depraved humor, some very gruesome violence, and lots of gratuitous nudity.The Depraved Humor---> "I heard y'all talking about killing Momma. I think it's a good idea."/"Aren't you s'posed to arrest people who commit murder?" "I like Digger."/"You're a very, beautiful woman. Don't you think so, Ansel?" "I hadn't given it much thought." - that last line is really funny.The Gruesome Violence---> the end, and really, only the end.The Gratuitous Nudity---> Gina Gershon opens the god damn door 100% bottomless, hairy crotch and all - that scene's really funny./A couple strippers show their fake boobies on stage, Texas style/Juno Temple wears provocative clothing throughout and Juno Temple takes off a number of the provocative clothing she wears throughout, and stands full frontal, a lot./Matthew McConaughey aggressively pins Emile Hirsch armed and fully naked then peacefully walks away - that's so funny, so creepy.The Juno Temple Paragraph - : ) She is so sweet, oh my god. I'm in love. She's beautiful. She's funny. She's really a talented girl. The best thing about her is...her sweet personality. Juno is around 20 when she did this. She's definitely not 12. I love her.The Matthew McConaughey Emile Hirsch Gina Gershon Thomas Haden Church Paragraph - McConaughey approaches Killer Joe with just the right mindset but not the right attitude. He's underwhelming at times. Thomas Haden Church way moreso. Gershon is all-around awesome. Emile by far gives the best performance.Having mentioned the nudity, violence, and dark humor, it also warrants to be stated that Killer Joe is very plainly disturbing. Obviously. I love this movie.

I guess if you come up with an idea for a movie it's not a bad idea to give it an ending, but it seems that someone just forgot this essential requirement. I've never been to Texas but if this one dimensional excursion into the lives of these rednecks is a true portrayal then it's a pretty sad one. I wonder if after the airing of this movie the Texas Tourist Board shut up shop for good. The movie os full of cliche's and this is what is so disappointing. There is nothing original or cutting edge about this film at all. It's really like they just gave up with it in the end and perhaps this explains why there is no real ending. No doubt one will be forthcoming when someone decides to release an updated version of the film.

Sorry Fridken and Letts. This is just a sick excuse to portray blue collar working class types as morons and amoral. Friedkin likes to feel that he understands working class blue collar types, and always identifies with the cops, union guys, killers, etc, that have helped him on his films, but Friedkin is full of s**t, always has been. He is in to power and prestige. Please don't condensed to trailer park people or blue collar types with this sadistic, sexualized and perverted film trash. There is more class in those people than you can forever hope to have. Write and direct movies about Beverly Hill types, that is where you are and who you are now.

Under pressure from loan sharks, a young gambling addict hires a crooked cop to kill his mother for the life insurance money, but nothing quite goes to plan in this engrossing drama starring Emile Hirsch and Matthew McConaughey as the gambler and cop respectively. McConaughey received a lot of praise for his performance at the time, all of which is justified. There is not a single likable character in this dark, bleak tale, however, McConaughey is always fascinating to watch, elucidating some very rigid rules of conduct and oozing danger at every turn. While he does explicitly taunt, intimidate or hurt Hirsch, unlike the loan shark and his goons, there is a constant sense that McConaughey might in fact be a more sinister and vicious character, especially as he starts making demands of Hirsch's teenage sister and begins bossing his father around. For all its virtues, the film also has a baffling black comedy streak to it, and the final twenty minutes or so are done with an uncomfortably comedic vibe. This ultimately leads to the film ending on an odd note with a sudden cut to black that leaves everything hanging. That said, the final twenty minutes are the most memorable of the movie with McConaughey completely losing the cool and calm demeanour he until then exhibited throughout; the final twenty minutes also go a long way to explaining the quizzical chicken wing promotional posters for the film.