The wild “30 Minutes or Less” is an action buddy comedy so preposterous that I laughed at the absurdities. Lazy, good-for-nothing Dwayne (Danny McBride, dumb as usual) wants to get his hands on his father’s (Fred Ward) money and plots to hire a hit man (Michael Pena) to bump him off. He needs $100 thousand to pay for the hit and robbing a bank will provide that, but he also requires someone to hold it up. Enter unsuspecting, pizza deliveryman Nick (Jesse Eisenberg, is this the same actor of “Social Network?” What a comedown!). Forcing him to stage a hold-up, the inept Dwayne and his unenthusiastic accomplice-friend Travis (Nick Swardson) strap a bomb to their hapless captive with a deadline or the hostage patsy will be blown to bits. Nick’s friend Chet (Aziz Ansari) is caught up in the goofiness joining him in a glitch filled robbery.
In 2003, a real life situation existed when a pizza deliveryman had a bomb strapped around his neck, and this scenario was conceived from that event. Directed by Ruben Fleischer, the more “30 Minutes” plays, the more foolishness is piled on for an appreciable running time of 83 minutes. The cast does what it can with the material provided in the scatterbrained, screwball comedy.
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