The Jesus Rolls Review

The latest game news from IGN - one of my fave channels ever - check it out The Jesus Rolls is available to rent or for purchase on Amazon, YouTube, Google Play, and Vudu. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Actor John Turturro, who's wanted to make a spinoff movie about his flamboyant bowling ball-licking cameo character from The Big Lebowski for almost two decades, finally got the Coen Brothers' permission about five years ago. The result is an uneven blending of the suave, arrogant Jesus Quintana and the 1974 French film Going Places by Bertrand Blier. The Jesus Rolls follows most of the major beats from that movie -- the end credits acknowledge The Jesus Rolls as being based on Blier's original novel and screenplay adaptation -- while only providing sporadic charm and unruly happenstance. It's a harmless mess but there's never a moment where it doesn't struggle to justify its existence. One slight SPOILER at the top, for those of you wondering why, or how, Turturro would want to craft (or borrow) an entire story around Lebowski's "sex offender." Well, one of the first things The Jesus Rolls does is turn the whole Jesus "exposing himself to an eight-year-old" tale from the Coens' film into a misunderstanding made by a very dumb, inappropriate crook. Jesus is not a "pederast," to use the term John Goodman's Water said in Lebowski. No, Jesus is just a fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants petty thief who enjoys roaming the landscape aimlessly while seeking his next sexually-fluid fling. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/06/the-jesus-rolls-official-trailer"] The aforementioned aimlessness doesn't exactly suit the film all that well, however, as we bounce around from one tacky, out-of-touch scenario to the next, with Jesus and his friend Petey (Bobby Cannavale), who's also his reluctant romantic partner at times, just kind of winging things after Jesus gets out of Sing Sing. One can forgive Turturro, who wrote and directed The Jesus Rolls, for trying to take Coen Bros-light approach to things, but his idea to adapt Going Places, from 46 years ago, just means that the situations and dialogue are going to feel pretty clunky and unenlightened. Basically, Jesus was molded to fit Going Places when it should have been the other way around. Or, best case scenario, just drum up an original story. The "call in some favors" cast can be fun, in this low-budget romp, as you'll see Christopher Walken, Jon Hamm, Tim Blake Nelson, and J. B. Smoove pulling one-day-on-set cameos. These stunt-casting scenes help spice up some of the movie's wanderlust vapidity, but guest appearance-wise, it's Susan Sarandon and Pete Davidson who help give the film a little extra helping of story. As a fresh out of the joint ex-con who's wooed by Jesus and Petey, Sarandon is the closest thing we have to an audience surrogate with a touch of depth. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=new-movies-coming-to-vod-early&captions=true"] The third headliner here, along with Turturro and Cannavale, is Amélie's Audrey Tautou, who plays the duo's paramour of sorts. The surrogate family atmosphere the trio occasionally manifests is endearing but ultimately no one feels like an adult here. A lot of that has to do with the movie being based on a slice of rambunctiously chauvinist French cinema from four decades ago. The Jesus Rolls starts out as if it's going to be a Jesus showcase, like how movies get made out of popular SNL characters, but it fast dissolves into something bizarre and, sadly, banal.

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