Carnage

What happens when you take a jump rope and try and stretch it to another country? You're obviously not going to have enough material to fulfill your goal. And that is exactly what is wrong with Carnage, a movie which isn't a movie at all really. Carnage is about two sets of parents who are dealing with a physical fight that their children got into, resulting in one child named Ethan losing two teeth. Zachary's parents (Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz) and Ethan's parents (Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly) try and deal with their dispute in the most calm and mature fashion possible, but soon after, their claws come out.

Carnage just doesn't have enough going on to really be considered as a movie to me. It runs 75 minutes which is certainly a very short period of time, but there's not much going on at all minus the parents and their arguments, so at times, 75 minutes feels like 7,775 minutes. The performances are all pretty solid though, most noteworthy being Christoph Waltz as Zachary's father, who provides a well-needed source of comedic relief and sour indifference. But overall, Carnage just isn't funny or entertaining enough to be recommended by me. If you want to watch a short, but entertaining and hillarious story about people fighting, just turn on an episode of Jerry Springer and skip Carnage all together.

1/4