Tuesday 8 June 2010

Furious John - **1/2

He isn't just angry, he's furious!
1991, USA, Colour, 81 minutes
Directed by G.J. Schmidt. Written by Peaceable Johns
Starring Peaceable Johns, Klaus Tratt, Kitten Seyo, Lucy Brown

John is a peaceable man, happily farming his small plot of land in the rural idyll of Nicetown until the Tax Man comes to visit. Knowing that he cannot pay, John desperately seeks for a distraction, when he remembers the story of 1001 Arabian NightsSadly for the Taxman, John isn't a very good story teller, but despite himself he cannot stop listening to a series of stories that would do a child in a creative writing class proud. Over the following hour we are exposed to morality plays, and the occasional sexy diversion, all of which seem designed to make one question the morality of taxes while also the incredible shitness that is the genre of movies-as-homilies.

Reviewed by Juan Incognito