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Article: Clay pigeons
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- The Village Voice
- Article date:
- October 6, 1998
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An allegedly comedic thriller about serial killing, David Dobkin's Clay Pigeons strives for the kind of edgy humor that, when misjudged, can make the relevant parties look extremely foolish, not to mention morally bankrupt. Joaquin Phoenix plays a hapless Montana mechanic who, covering up the suicide of a friend (whose wife he was screwing), finds himself in a predictable mess, swiftly complicated by the mysterious arrival of a swaggering cowboy-hatted psychopath (Vince Vaughn, having fun, though I couldn't begin to tell you why). Midway through the film, an FBI agent (Janeane Carofalo) shows up on cue. A last-minute twist seems in the cards-but is It really? It's never clear, by the way, ...