Rotten
Peter Berg's Very Bad Things isn't a bad movie, just a reprehensible one.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Very Bad Things
They've been bad. Very bad.
1998 · 1h 40m · R
Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Peter Berg
Overview
Kyle Fisher has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura, so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a drug and alcohol filled night on the town with a stripper who goes all the way, turns into a cold night in the desert with shovels when the stripper goes all the way into a body bag after dying in their bathroom. And that's just the first of the bodies to pile up before Kyle can walk down the aisle...
Director and cast
- Peter Berg Director
- Jon Favreau as Kyle Fisher
- Leland Orser as Charles Moore
- Cameron Diaz as Laura Garrety
- Christian Slater as Robert Boyd
- Jeremy Piven as Michael Berkow
- Daniel Stern as Adam Berkow
- Jeanne Tripplehorn as Lois Berkow
- Rob Brownstein as Man
- Blake Gibbons as Suit
- Tyler Cole Malinger as Timmy Berkow
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
41%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Berg is so in love with his escalating shock tactics that they quickly cease to shock.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
...hollow, simple-minded and about as profound an experience as stepping in a pile of road kill.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
...Berg's listless direction brings the film so little point of view that it doesn't much matter who lives or dies.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Rotten
The gross-out humor lacks edge, the guilt never kicks in, and the outrages are predictable. It's one flat brewski.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
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