Review of Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise (2001) by Brandon S — 28 Feb 2010

Danny Boyle has one of the coolest careers in film ever. In his films he has tackled zombies, space, heroin addicts, India, and that's not even looking at his whole filmography. So with this one, his topic of choice was unbalanced vacuum salesmen.

Visually you can see this as a definite precursor to "28 Days Later"- the digital, grainy look and wild experimental hand held cinematography are very similar. But story wise, this is the hardest to peg of all of Boyle's films.

It's mood veers from humor to drama very quickly leaving it with a rather uneven feeling. It feels like an absurdist rendition of "Death of a Salesman," honestly. The performances are good, Timothy Spall especially stealing the show as a rather loathesome but captivating individual.

It is not a perfect film, but it's worth seeing for Danny Boyle's involvement and some rather unexpected laughs.