30 Minutes or Less

The film contains a remarkable level of violence, yet never establishes a tone that would make it seem funny or truly shocking; the jokes flounder in an air of half-hearted spite.

Puerile, irritating and insultingly phallocentric.

30 Minutes or Less has one of those screenplays that looks goodish on paper but is only a bit above average.

It's entirely ridiculous, but it gallops cheerfully along; everything is carried off with flair and ingenuity.

It all goes horribly wrong, with the characters and the audience united in anguish.

Crude, charmless and knuckleheaded.

The comedy reaches for broad laughs of the bromance and stoner kind, but not in a good way.

Though it won't win any awards for its plot, the film does excel in the department it clearly directs all its efforts toward: dialogue.

While the film is far from a disaster, from a director who's already proven he's capable of so much more it's undeniably disappointing.

Fun and funny, but also manages to tell a good, surprisingly tense story with solid characters.