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All this certainly adds up to a bizarre buddy comedy, and eventually SWISS ARMY MAN starts to run out of gas (not literally) the more ridiculous it gets. The one-joke premise starts to wear thin, even if there are moments of true inspiration scattered throughout. The big asterisk here is that I saw this at the end of a ten day, thirty plus movie run, so maybe if I had seen SWISS ARMY MAN with in a less caffeine-addled state-of-mind I would have had an easier time going along with the ride. Even still, SWISS ARMY MAN is nothing if not unique, and The Daniels obviously have a ton of talent, with this sporting an impressive scale and imagination to spare. It’ll almost certainly become a kind of cult item somewhere down the road, and it’ll be interesting to see how the public reacts to this once A24 puts it in release.
In Escape From Pretoria, Daniel Radcliffe plays Tim Jenkin, a real-life political prisoner who orchestrated a prison escape from Pretoria Central Prison in 1979, during the apartheid era in South Africa. It's another off-beat role in the eclectic post-Harry Potter career, which has seen Radcliffe take on a low-key public persona, with characters you wouldn't expect from the leading man of a billion-dollar franchise.
Have you wonder why he hasn't been in a blockbuster movie since Harry Potter?
Imagine a person as useful as a Swiss army knife, but also dead. Swiss Army Man is painfully awkward at times, but also strangely beautiful. It's the weirdest movie I've ever seen, and it's amazing.
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Co-written and directed by Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan (their collective credit reads “A Film by Daniels”), Swiss Army Man premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival where it quickly became known as “the movie where Daniel Radcliffe plays a farting corpse”.
As such, it would be easy to dismiss the film based on its ridiculous premise (there were multiple walk-outs at Sundance) and indeed, it’s fair to say it won’t be to everyone’s taste, but those who stick with it will be rewarded with a surprisingly moving and very funny black comedy that cleverly blends the profound and the puerile.
