From sudden zooms and abrupt freeze frames to lengthy tracking shots, slow-motion, and CG-enhanced fantasy interludes, Why Don't You Play In Hell? boasts an aesthetic insanity to match its uninhibited narrative.
– Nick Schager,
AV Club,
6 Nov 2014
rotten:
Goofball antics and a terrific, raucous finale can't make up for the essential slackness of its repetitive comedy and punk chest thumping.
– Nicolas Rapold,
New York Times,
6 Nov 2014
fresh:
Delivers adrenaline, chutzpah, and fake blood by the bucket-load, continually confounding audience expectations while offering up a twisted valentine to moviemaking in general and the disappearing medium of 35mm film in particular.
– Alonso Duralde,
TheWrap,
7 Nov 2014
fresh:
Sono is so pure of heart, so full of enthusiasm and insane imagination and unwavering loyalty to the movie gods, long after the rest of us have stopped believing, that I forgive him everything.
– Andrew O'Hehir,
Salon.com,
7 Nov 2014
fresh:
A blood-soaked gang saga that builds to a madcap battle royal.