Review of War on Everyone (2016) by Adam T — 19 Sep 2016

I had the misfortune of seeing War on Everyone at one of Odeon's Screen Unseen events and it had to be one of the most excruciating cinema experiences of my life.

The film mostly consists of forced one-liners, obviously improvised with smatterings of extreme violence with very little much in the way of plot. It tries to be offensive for the sake of being offensive. Tonally it's all over the place, it tries to make you feel some sort of sympathy with the lead characters, particularly Skarsgard, who plays an alcoholic, when in fact they are pretty unlikeably with no redeeming qualities.

If you've seen the trailer there's a line where one of the characters says, "If you haven't got a good script, you haven't got shit", which seemed like it was a dig at the current slew of poor blockbusters. How wrong I was, it was obviously a self-referential comment on the film itself.