Poor Boy (2016)

Poor Boy: Directed by Robert Scott Wildes. With Michael Shannon, Amanda Crew, Justin Chatwin, Dale Dickey. Two misfit brothers hustle cash and chase dreams in the desert. When a mysterious woman threatens to repo their beloved houseboat the brothers cook up an epic con to finally leave their dusty town and sail off on a beam of sunshine to California.

“Bill Boss the warder of a tough maximum security prison watches the European art house black comedy films involving the human centipedes and invites the films director Tom Six to see how viable this would be in real life u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI canu0026#39;t say I was a massive fan of the original HC . I missed out on the sequel and only watched this one because I had the opportunity of seeing it free and contains the bizarre casting of Eric Roberts and former porn star Bree Olson. On top of all that there seemed to be a meta-fictional aspect of director Tom Six playing himself and the trailer looked good . Whatu0026#39;s wrong with investing a couple of hours in blackly comical horror ? u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWell to be fair the trailer is accurate in a way of u0026quot;Meglomaniac abuses power and really pushes the boat outu0026quot; but the execution is dreadful . Dieter Laser looks totally camp in the trailer as Bill Boss and while the performance is bearable in a two minute trailer itu0026#39;s not in a feature length film . I can understand that heu0026#39;s not supposed to be taken seriously for a moment but thatu0026#39;s not really the point as he shouts , squeals and uses lots and lots of swear words while inflicting violence on people . Itu0026#39;s not satire weu0026#39;re watching but absolute farce and Laser becomes painfully irritating , so much so that you find yourself looking forward to Eric Roberts appearing if only to see a calm and reserved performance . Yes chaps you read that right – Eric Roberts probably gives the most calm , rational and realistic acting performance in the entire movie . I suppose you could also give Tom Six a back handed compliment in making a sequel that is a billion light years removed from the original movie but nothing about it really works and in cinematic terms it feels like a juvenile delinquent who wants to shock the adult world but just ends up looking silly . Take this insult: u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Not even the corpse of a spastic would want you . Now f–k offu0026quot; u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThatu0026#39;s probably the most witty line in the film and Iu0026#39;ve come out with funnier compliments throughout my entire life which hopefully says more about THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE III than it says about me”