
This anarchic thriller presents a crazy, off-kilter London of action, comedy and true love. Eddie, Paul and Katharine are cool, carefree characters in a world of absolute freedoms: freedom to steal, freedom to fire a gun, freedom to kill, and freedom to fall in love. And freedom never to be hurt--at least not seriously. Only the bad guys die. Sam Rockwell and Ben Schwartz play two London-bound buddies whose outrageous antics never have serious consequences. They always wriggl... (Full plot summary below)
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This anarchic thriller presents a crazy, off-kilter London of action, comedy and true love. Eddie, Paul and Katharine are cool, carefree characters in a world of absolute freedoms: freedom to steal, freedom to fire a gun, freedom to kill, and freedom to fall in love. And freedom never to be hurt--at least not seriously. Only the bad guys die. Sam Rockwell and Ben Schwartz play two London-bound buddies whose outrageous antics never have serious consequences. They always wriggle out of danger, with a wisecrack, a weapon and a smile. Eddie and Paul are two innocents abroad, except they're not innocent at all. They're low-level wise guys who never really have a grip on anything. The controlling intelligence in the story is Phoebe Fox's insecure lawyer, Katherine. She's always one step ahead of the game - but is she ready to fall in love?
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| Blu-ray.comBrian Orndorf"Blue Iguana" ends up a slack Ritchie-esque thrill ride of sarcasm, thievery, and wrong moves, opening without a welcome mat and concluding with body-coating bloodshed. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyBlue Iguana strains to be antic in every joint, from gimmicky editorial and camera choices to a soundtrack cluttered with early ’80s New Wave tracks by the B-52’s, Violent Femmes, Only Ones — great stuff, but they can’t get a party started that’s already flatlined. |
| Solzy at the MoviesDanielle SolzmanBlue Iguana mixes up the genres while offering an 80s vibe in both visuals and soundtrack. Unfortunately, it isn't enough. |
| HighDef DigestDeirdre CrimminsOverall, the major value in Blue Iguana is watching a great comedic ensemble play with their words and toy with one another. When it does that, the movie works well. I just wish it did that more. |
| Film Journal InternationalStephen WhittyIt’s not a great movie, but it’s a good reminder of why Rockwell’s admirers have happily stuck with him for decades. |
| Film ThreatAlan NgRockwell and Schwartz are basically doing their version of a Hope-and-Crosby road film. They play characters very familiar to an American audience and that is played against a British comedic landscape. The result it interesting to watch, but I think more for the Brits than its American counterparts. |
| New York TimesTeo BugbeeIn absence of either good humor or good set pieces, Blue Iguana is a heist gone bust. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreRockwell, Schwartz, Fox, Ferdinando and Callow make it engaging in between its darkly-funny bursts of slow-motion violence — be their characters expertly menacing, or just mean and inept. |
| RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyWithout an establishing tone or style — the first scene sits there on the screen like a void — it can come off as trying to jump on some already-long-gone bandwagon. |
| FanboyNation.comSean MulvihillThe film may not be as clever and shocking as it wants to be, but it's a bit of fun to watch this cast as a crew of often inept criminals. |