This is probably as close to a film version of Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron that we’ll ever get.

Have read a few reviews calling this a less than successful satire of the modern-American-comic-book-reading-pop-culture-obsessed-slacker-man-child, which is fair to say, but I think there is more going on in here than that. This film feels more akin to portraying the lengths that people go to to avoid taking responsibility for their own actions, surrendering themselves to some higher power…