Choke

Choke

Based off of the book, by the same writer as FightClub. Fox searchlight Pictures, Directed by Clark Gregg, Sam Rockwell [ Victor Mancini], Angelica Huston [ Victor’s Mother].

This film reminded me constantly of Fightclub. I felt it was a slight overkill. Like they were trying to remake the success of Fightclub. If you have seen Fightclub, you have already seen the same themes as Choke.

The story was intriguing and very comical at times. Victor’s workplace is one example of hilarity. The storyline was different than what I was expecting, yet it still felt like I had already seen it all before. I was viewing a brand new film for the first time, but I was not shocked at one thing in the movie. The only thing I was not expecting was Angelica Houston’s revelation to Victor at the ending.

Again, the plot to me was very standard, even though it did seem at the first glance to be all over the place. Truth is, it is the same standard plot you see in every movie. *Attack of the basic movie formula.* But before I seem to be too harsh, I was amused at the way the plot moved along, even though each event was slightly easy to guess.

I feel like the only actor to even be worth mentioning is Angelica Huston. As usual this woman puts so much life into a character. This time it is for a bad woman that you root for, and hope she is able to do some more bad. She was just a misunderstood woman who made it easy to love her. She had no real motives to do anything, but gave the character such a spirit, and zest for life, that no other actress could have given to that character.

The symbolism was vague in this film to me. But I like that. There were a lot of religious inclinations here and there, then at the last minute at the end of the film, they are tossed out of the window because you find out that the writer left something undone, so they patched it up really quickly at the end for us critics. I caught it…. Unless they really honestly thought Sex was a good enough way to use symbolism.

Basically, I was amused by this film, but as for wishing something real out of this film, I would give it a fail. Though, I would still recommend the film for its hilarity. The film is only good for a good laugh. No other holding power other than that.

I give this film 1 out of 5.