Here it is so close between the stars that one can assume that John Turturro walked around and got the contracts written on one of the softer after-parties at the Oscars gallery. The promille content could also explain that so many big names put their crows on such an imbecile script.
In the only 85 minutes that roll by the screen, we get to meet prominent actors like Christopher Walken, Jon Hamm, Sônia Braga, Susan Sarandon, Bobby Cannavale, Audrey Tautou - and Turturro himself.
The latter is rightly a celebrated character actor who usually steps full-skinned even how turkey crashes. However, not now, when he himself is steering the ship straight down the ditch.
But on paper it sounded good. John Turturro would give us the chance to get to know the ball-licking bowling virtuoso Jesus Quintana, from the brothers Coen's slacker gem The Big Lebowski, a little better. It is undoubtedly a poster name that draws, and in the beginning, Jesus tickles big egos and special patterns of movement. He moves like a dance, the sex first and then, like the rest of the body, comes after.
Pretty soon, however, we realize that it is just that body part (which we are told is very rough and tall) that controls both him and the movie. This is hay-hay humor flawlessly camouflaged as open-minded sex comedy.
When Jesus comes out of the couch, he joins his old cousin Petey and pulls out in a pointless road movie where they fuck and piss around in the American countryside. They are also joined by a prostitute woman who likes her job, trolls naively as a child while serving both men. Thanks to the duo, she gets her first orgasm and then wants to lie all the time. Otherwise, she also likes to cook their food and comfort the giant babies when they are sad. Thus, mother, cook and prostitute in one and the same cackling package.
Hardly overplayed by Audrey Tautou.
If the view of women feels gravely dated, and it does, it may be because Turturro has placed his Jesus in a remake of the French Bertrand Bliers ruffler comedy The Flirt Bullets of 1974 (with Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere and Miou-Miou). Without updating a smack.
Thus, Turturro has dug up one of the toughest and most mythically entertaining bifigures in film history (which he himself helped to make so wonderful) and made him a most banal and writing-fixed member of the Jönsson League's transatlantic branch.
The correct legal term is supposed to be Crime Peace.
The Jesus rolls had a bio premiere on May 8 and will be released on VOD on June 8.