Offensive Behaviour (2004)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Patrick Gillies

Writer:

Patrick Gillies (writer)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Shock, schlock and a few smoking corpses

Cast

Richard Allom Cosgrove	...	Quentin
Janice Gray	...	Mother
Michael Maxwell	...	Axe Murderer
David Sheard	...	Nigel

Runtime:

New Zealand:81 min

Country:

New Zealand

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

New Zealand:R16

"I'm a f***ing nun, for chrissakes"

"Offensive Behaviour" is, unfortunately, too low-budget to pull off the same sort of films that Peter Jackson managed so well on his low budgets in his early days, although it is compared to him.

We have a nun and son hit-person team, out to get some money from a guy that owes, but due to some pesky little kids switching people's mail around in the post boxes, the wrong person is picked. The nun is rough and gruff enough as it is, but her son, well, he's a poofter hairdresser and not particularly threatening, until he really gets rolling and gets the blood lust. Particularly funny is a scene (with musical accompaniment) where he "struts" along, meaning business.

We also have a young man who is trying to sell a film to a producer, and when all else fails he turns to porno, using his girlfriend and his room mate as stars, only to find that they're not acting anymore.

And, we have what appears to be the original target of the hit-persons, a man named Riley, who is busy swilling vodka and popping pills and blasting music, and who ends up with his hand down the garbage disposal while he passes out, only to have two people stumble in who thinks he needs help and try to turn on the kitchen light...oh, and he's got a corpse on the floor of a previous victim, whoops.

This does all sort of come together but it also sort of falls apart. There's some funny parts, definitely, but it sort of runs out of steam after a while & there's not enough outrageousness to sustain the entire run time. Not a bad try but still not all that great. 6 out of 10.