Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
Kyle Fisher has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura, so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a drug and alcohol filled night on the town with a stripper who goes all the way, turns into a cold night in the desert with shovels when the stripper goes all the way into a body bag after dying in their bathroom. And that's just the first of the bodies to pile up before Kyle can walk down the aisle...
Very Bad Things is a darkly comic crime thriller that commits hard to its mean-spirited premise — a Vegas bachelor party gone catastrophically wrong spiraling into escalating murder and moral collapse. The plot is relentlessly bleak and escalates with grim momentum, though it occasionally feels like it's pushing buttons for shock value rather than genuine satirical insight. The ensemble cast (Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz, Jon Favreau) delivers solid if uneven work — Slater leans into his manic psychopath mode effectively, while Diaz's obsessive bride is broadly drawn. Cinematography is functional and unremarkable for the era, nothing particularly distinctive in how it's shot. The film's novelty lies in its willingness to go further into darkness than most black comedies of the period, though it ultimately treads familiar Coen-adjacent territory without the same finesse. The ending maintains the film's nihilistic logic but feels more punishing than earned.