Blue Iguana

Name: Blue Iguana
Genre: Action, Thriller, Comedy, Romance
Released: August 24, 2018
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 30
Cast: Al Weaver, Amanda Donohoe, Andre Flynn, Anton Saunders, Ben Schwartz

2018

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Blue Iguana

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Not Rated

Screen Media Films | Release Date: August 24, 2018

Starring: Al Weaver, Amanda Donohoe, Andre Flynn, Anton Saunders, Ben Schwartz, Frances Barber, Jenny Bede, Lee Nicholas Harris, Peter Ferdinando, Peter Polycarpou, Phoebe Fox, Sam Rockwell, Simon Callow

Summary: Ex-jailbirds Eddie and Paul are on parole and working in a New York diner. Their lives are a dead end. That is, until English lawyer Katherine Rookwood walks into the diner with an offer they can't refuse.

Director: Hadi Hajaig

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Comedy, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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Movie Nation Roger Moore

Aug 25, 2018

Rockwell, Schwartz, Fox, Ferdinando and Callow make it engaging in between its darkly-funny bursts of slow-motion violence — be their characters expertly menacing, or just mean and inept. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Aug 24, 2018

Without an establishing tone or style — the first scene sits there on the screen like a void — it can come off as trying to jump on some already-long-gone bandwagon. Read full review

Film Journal International Stephen Whitty

Aug 23, 2018

It’s not a great movie, but it’s a good reminder of why Rockwell’s admirers have happily stuck with him for decades. Read full review

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Aug 23, 2018

Blue Iguana makes the freshly minted Oscar winner (for his totally worthy performance in Three Billboards) work way too hard to cut through the film’s blatant stupidity and buffet of clichés. Read full review

Variety Dennis Harvey

Aug 24, 2018

Blue Iguana strains to be antic in every joint, from gimmicky editorial and camera choices to a soundtrack cluttered with early ’80s New Wave tracks by the B-52’s, Violent Femmes, Only Ones — great stuff, but they can’t get a party started that’s already flatlined. Read full review

Los Angeles Times Michael Rechtshaffen

Aug 23, 2018

Writer-director Hadi Hajaig was obviously shooting for a mid-1980s indie vibe along the lines of Jonathan Demme’s “Something Wild,” but aside from an overstuffed soundtrack that goes heavy on the B-52’s, there’s nothing particularly engaging or nostalgic going on beneath all the forced irreverence. Read full review

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

Aug 23, 2018

A hopelessly muddled, tedious exercise that barely manages an interesting moment despite its plethora of violence and gore. As usual, Rockwell gives it his all, but he's unable to rescue the film from being instantly forgettable. Read full review

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