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83It's an indelibly warped cartoon of lust and despair.
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75While the movie will definitely not be to everyone's taste, black-hearted romantics will find Choke easy to swallow.
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70A fantastical sex farce, and a highly amusing one at that, without being the least bit momentous or memorable.
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70It adds up to an entertaining collection of vignettes strung together by a sarcastic loudmouth whose heart is breaking under his sophomoric bravado.
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67Rockwell is spectacular here, infusing Victor with a charm that makes you root for him despite the essentially sleazy con-man emptiness of his existence.
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63Some stretches are very funny, although the laughter is undermined by the desperation and sadness of the situations.
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63While Choke, adapted for the screen and directed by Clark Gregg, is by no means a disaster, it is disappointing - and oddly dull.
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63Fine performances from Sam Rockwell and Brad William Henke deserve some passing attention.
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63Yes, it's not for the squeamish or easily offended, but its sordidness is more superficially shocking than wickedly satirical.
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63The movie veers with surprising ease between comedy and tragedy. Some scenes are hilarious; others are somber.
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60The film feels flat. I don't know how to express my criticism much more than to say that things unfold before you, but you never really engage in the world beyond just watching it.
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60An uneven take on Palahniuk's fourth novel, Rockwell and Huston shining brightly enough to eclipse a patchy directorial debut.
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58A strangely warm, affectionate look at bad behavior amid emotional damage and a stranglehold of identity issues.
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50Disappointing not for what it is but what it could have been.
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50Maybe this stuff works on the page, in Chuck Palahniuk's darkly comic novel, but Choke is awfully tough to digest on the screen.
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As the story of a wallowing pig, Choke is often pretty entertaining, but when it comes to where-do-I-come-from poignancy, it can't always keep from gagging.
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42Cluttered, flavorless Choke, which crams the novel's nervy narration into an irritating voiceover, and leaps around in time and space with all the attention span of an ADD-addled child.
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40For much of the way, the film just feels like it's pressing too hard to make an impression.
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40Mancini's character boils down to a lot of self-loathing and unresolved mommy issues – which is as tedious as it sounds.
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40Palahniuk's antic absurdism is duly present, but the hurtling pace and barely-underlying nihilism that transferred to screen so vividly in "Fight Club" aren't much in evidence here.
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38CHOKE tries to be dirty but manages merely to be dingy.
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30Sam Rockwell strips himself down to pure appetite and has a buoyant spirit. But the film sure doesn't. It's bizarrely flat--it has no affect.
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They explain and explain again the genesis of Victor's demons, to the point where the novel and movie play almost like parodies of novels and movies in which a character has to get in touch with his feelings in order to become a better man.
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30I walked out of Choke feeling hustled, which is appropriate enough, I guess, for a movie that's a portrait of a compulsive hustler.
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30A singularly vulgar piece of work.
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30These ideas may well have cohered in Chuck Palahniuk's best-selling satirical novel, which I haven't read, but in this screen adaptation by writer-director Clark Gregg they seem more like an assortment of gimmicks.
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25An annoying little film that attempts to be lascivious but is merely ludicrous.
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