I can’t, and won’t, recommend this movie.
You see, there are two kinds of people in this life: those who will watch a movie where poop is eaten, and those who won’t. Can you guess which category I fall into? It doesn’t matter. Because thanks to The Mule, I am now a person who has watched a movie where poop is eaten, like it or not (emphatic NOT).
The whole “plot” is just waiting for someone to take a dump. A little more context? Fine. Television repairman and all-round dim bulb Ray (Angus Sampson) gets convinced\coerced by his “best friend” Gavin (Leigh Whannell) to smuggle a whole key of heroin down his gullet. Ray lacks the smuggler’s panache, and the customs agent sees through his beads of sweat and flimsy story. The rectum comes up empty (after a thorough search that’s uncomfortable for all of us), so he’s being quarantined in a hotel room where cops (Hugo Weaving) are waiting round the clock for him to expel his bowels.
This movie starts out slow but as Ray writhes around on the bed, trying not to defecate or die, but mostly not to defecate, the situation around him starts to escalate. If you think the cops aren’t happy, you should see the drug dealers! But it starts to be an awkward contest as to who is the most shady and pretty soon there are no winners but lots and lots of losers, including me.
The truth is, you might actually enjoy this movie. It’s smart enough to elicit sympathy growls from your own tummy, I bet. Tony Mahony and Sampson co-direct, so there are at least two men to blame when you inevitably have to pause this movie to a) vomit, or b) brush your teeth vigorously, for days. I don’t have the stomach for a movie like this, no matter how good it otherwise is. I’d rather watch James Franco saw off his arm and Tom Hanks pull out his rotted teeth on a loop for the rest of my life than watch those 30 seconds of film ever again. Consider yourselves warned.
Wow. This sounds terrible
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I think I might have liked it if it wasn’t for the part that I hated beyond belief.
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Ha well if it was that bad then it sounds like nothing will ever change your mind
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Nooooooo.
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Not having had the undeniably “special”experience of watching a POOP movie, I can’t offer empathy…lol
One question, did you watch the whole movie? (Don’t lie!)
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Yes I did.
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lol.. Ever thought of getting a stint on that Mike something-or-other, Discovery Channel show… “world’s dirtiest jobs”? Filth is, after all much easier to remove from our body…not so our mind!
You’re a tough guy…hehehe
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Yeah…I’m in the no way I’m watching that group.
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I am forewarned. lol
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I highly, highly appreciate this warning.
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Yeah, there’s pretty much nothing a movie can do for me after that.
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Jay,
I almost have to watch this now. How would this film stack up against Reservoir Dogs?
RR
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I wouldn’t begin to know how to compare!
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Well let’s say a 10 out of 10 on the queasy scale would be a straight-up snuff film.
Something like the Reservoir Dogs – Psycho is dancing around and torturing a guy strapped to a chair…then he bites the guy’s nose half-off. Let’s say 5.5 / 10
Where’s Mule gonna land?
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Reservoir Dogs makes me wince. The Mule made me vomit in my mouth.
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And I thought nothing could top The Human Centipede… (Which I never saw, but reading about its premise was enough for me.)
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I definitely never saw it either!
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Well, if you ever do, be sure to write a review about it. I think we’re all curious about that one!
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Having had the misfortune of being exposed to this movie (the 2010 version anyway), I don’t think the mouth-anus aspect was half as disturbing as the initiator of the “art-work”…worse even that the protagonists…that being the producer/writer’s mind! (Tom Six)…did you get the wordplay?
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Er…definitely sounds like one I can skip!
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Very well done, sir.
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@Jay …Why thank you kind sir! (Entrapment 1999)
Mac: You are the most beautiful crook I’ve ever seen.
Gin: Why, thank you kind sir.
#FatMilton
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Eeeeeek!!
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No thank you! I’ve seen The Human Centipedes 1 and 2 and that’s more than enough poop eating to last a lifetime. Pass.
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I don’t think anyone could have dragged me to see this. Ugh.
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I’m in awe that you could finish watching the movie. Appreciate the warning at the beginning… that is so wrong…. I don’t think I could’ve finished watching 🙂
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I was absurdly angry with my husband for abandoning me with it!
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Is this an Australian film? I bet it’s another shitty Australian film. Hugo Weaving deserves better!
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It is.
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Omg!!!! Thank you , I’d be pissed spending all that money to see S**t
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I could watch James Franco do whatever he wants 😀
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