Have you ever watched a movie and not known exactly what to make of it? That happened to me this weekend when I watched the movie Suburbanite. I hadn’t heard of the movie until I saw a preview for it at work, sometimes working at a video store leads to some very unexpected finds. It seemed like an interesting thriller so I grabbed it. Once I started watching it the movie really wasn’t what I expected. I can’t really review it without getting spoilery so let’s get to it.

So the preview of this movie showed a guy screaming at a man tied up in his garage, “You’re just a piece of bad luck.” Imagine my surprise when I started the movie to see two men, the one who was tied up in the garage and one in a suit, making a plan to kill the soon to be tied up man’s wife. For future reference tied up man we later learn is named Mack. After making the deal, Mack starts having second thoughts, and after his car won’t start, he wanders out into traffic hoping that a car will hit him. Well, it turns out that a man headed home from a conference is falling asleep at the wheel and conveniently hits Mack head on.

The next we see the driver he is in his garage freaking out. He pulls Mack out of the trunk and prepares to go bury him in the backyard. Yep, just grabs a shovel and heads out to his ridiculously spacious yard. Dude is pretty chill about this burying a body thing. While taking a break for beer and pizza our driver hears Mack moan, and suddenly the dead body is suddenly alive. Though he was totally cool with burying a body, driver has no clue what to do with a super injured living guy. At first he feels terrible about hitting Mack, but once he finds out about the hit and the fact that Mack is getting divorced because he beat his wife, he decides his injured hostage would be better off dead.

You’d think that’d be a quick end right, just a dude slowly dying in a garage from his injuries, well you would be wrong. Mack winds up calling the man he used to take out a hit on his ex-wife and suddenly the guy shows up in the garage. Hit guy, apparently his name is Rick, is part of a crooked cop team, with his buddy Bob, and they either kill for money or blackmail the people who have contacted them. Rick decides blackmailing the driver would be a better plan than Mack because the driver totally has more money and more to lose from this whole incident.

Mack winds up telling his captor what’s going on and the two attempt to create a plan to save them both. When Rick shows up to tell our driver about the new situation, with Bob threatening the livelihood of his family for good measure, everything gets even crazier. Mack attacks Bob, the driver attacks Rick, and both dirty cops go down fast. Then when Mack says he’ll take care of everything, the driver decides he needs to get rid of his only loose end and shoots Mack in the head and then just leaves the garage.

I honestly kept giggling during this movie. Something about the super crazy plot was just so ridiculous that I just couldn’t stop. Rick even comments within the movie on how crazy everything is. All of the male characters we see, the movie is basically just those four dudes with a cameo appearance from the driver’s wife, I think are verging on becoming Patrick Bateman style sociopaths. While it isn’t intentional the movie is funny and makes for a good no think watch. I’m not saying it’s great, but it’s at least a decent, maybe drink a little bit first to ensure you are as giggly as I was.

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