I really wanted to like this movie more than I did, especially since I love Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix. But it took an awfully long time to get going. The situation seemed flat, the action slow, and the characters neither compelling nor especially believable. Things really picked up, though, when Janeane Garofalo came on the scene. What an inspired piece of casting! No one can deliver a dead-pan sarcastic one-liner the way she can. Yet she stays completely and believably in the character. After her arrival, it became a completely new movie, and I wound up enjoying it in the end. The gorgeous countryside didn't hurt either. Worth seeing.
Review of Clay Pigeons
