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...Officer Louis Favreau roams campus on foot, watching carefully. To all but the most intense scrutiny, he appears to be a college student, wearing a sweatshirt and jeans. On nights like tonight, when he's working undercover and everything is okay, he can pass an entire shift without being noticed. But last week, a drug dealer learned the hard way not to sell drugs under the nose of HUPD's plainclothes unit...
...Favreau and Officer Brian Spellman were standing outside Store 24 in the Square when they witnessed a marijuana sale within arms' reach. The drug dealer and buyer looked shocked when they ended up in handcuffs, Favreau remembers...
VERY BAD THINGS Starring Jon Favreau, Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz Directed by Peter Berg Polygram Films...
...anything else in the "civilzed people aren't really so civilized" genre. Perhaps the real horror of this movie is how the clich‚--which, like the Jaws or the "Jason" serieses, will never go away--has come back to terrorize us once again. Kyle Fisher (Jon Favreau) and Laura Garrety (Cameron Diaz) are a happy couple, soon to be married. Kyle goes with his buddies to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. They do a lot of drinking and a little murdering. They return. Their sins themselves do not haunt them, but rather the realization that they have...
Presumably, Very Bad Things will be ignored by all but those who evaluate movies in terms of shock and gore. Jon Favreau and the other talented people involved in this movie will presumably go on to, if not Great, at least Somewhat Better Things. The question of whether dark comedy, which was so vital so recently, can survive is unresolved. Certainly the existence of the movie paints a pessimistic picture of what happens to innovators in Hollywood: their innovations are derivatively imitated or altogether scorned. Such were the fates of Pulp Fiction and The Cable Guy, respectively. One hopes, however...