Killer Joe is dark, brutal, funny and unexpected. Marrying humour with terror is a great skill and here it is done beautifully.
The premise is that when a young man's trailer trash mum nicks his stash leaving him in debt with his dealer he decides to hire a hit man to kill her for her life insurance money.
Superb cast particularly enjoyed (and was surprised by) Matthew McConaughey as the cop with a dark sideline and Juno Temple, as the innocent little sister, just goes from strength to strength. Emile Hirsch who plays the young man continues to makes interesting choices and is certainly on my list of actors to follow.
I'm going to give it 80%. On IMDb is has 74% and has yet to get a Metacritic score. On Rotten Tomatoes it has 88% from critics and 80% of site visitors gave it three and a half stars or more.
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