Tusk

Tusk shares something in common with The Human Centipede, although it's definitely not as explicit. Still, there is excellent use of masks and costumes. Unfortunately, there are also a lot of unnecessary scenes or scenes that are just plain silly - Johnny Depp has one of the worst roles I've seen him in here. Above all, his character unnecessarily forces the film to be overly funny, which didn't really suit it. The beginning was relaxed, but Depp's character ruined it all, and his storytelling unnecessarily dragged it out. Kevin Smith didn't completely impress me this time, but Tusk isn't exactly a disappointment for me either. (2015-01-21)

The premise alone is calling for immediate cult status, the execution, on the other hand, swings between a madhouse and a philosophical circle of recovering alcoholics – but there is something about it. Kevin Smith plays a rather impressive game between the victim and his sociopathic captor that does not lack a proper dose of morbidity, plus the wonderfully ignoble motivations of the villain, but he also ruins everything with comedy reliefs and the performance of Johnny Depp, which belongs to a completely different story. A more serious, and consequently more violent take on the material could have resulted in a horror gem, but what we have is nothing but provocative bizarreness with a wannabe message and dodgy humour, though with some strong moments and a brilliant idea. (2019-09-15)

Another wild ride from Kevin Smith, who, let's be honest, has a knack for serving up absolute lunacy. From dark humor to downright idiocy, he covers the spectrum in this one. The film's theme is twisted, to say the least. And while that wouldn't be a problem in itself, I found myself desperately waiting for something to jolt me awake for the most part. As for the rest of the movie, just forget about logic. Even a layman like me can tell you that some of the stuff just wouldn't fly. And then came Johnny Depp as Guy Lapointe, and it all went downhill from there. I initially thought I'd toss it a generous three stars, but two will more than suffice. / Lesson learned: Justin Long might've just found his life's role. (2024-05-05)

It seems to me that Kevin Smith INTENTIONALLY tried to make this film so that it could not be physically tolerated. First, we have a crazy and perverted wtf story reminiscent of The Human Centipede, dominated by a repulsive walrus costume and the disturbing thought of a painful transformation. It’s a story that is completely demented from the very beginning, but at the same time wants to give the audience a sort of deep message (see the last scene). Then there are the excessively long dialogues about nothing, desperately unfunny jokes uttered with the greatest awkwardness, nonlinear storytelling disturbing the viewer’s attention, indecisive genre balancing on the edge between bad horror and lousy comedy, absolutely horrible acting by Johnny Depp... There is so much of it and to such an extreme extent that it simply could not be a coincidence, and given the director's experience, or even non-art, so I suspect that Smith wanted it to be this way intentionally. He apparently succeeded. But that does not mean that I appreciate his intentions. (2015-09-23)

Luckily I didn't trust the trailer too much either, so I'm not very disappointed, I was expecting it. Tusk is a kind of unfunny, tedious and uninteresting drama, in which nothing really happens for an hour, only after that we are shown a walrus in its full glory, which looked decent, but the lack of gore and not showing the course of the whole operation seems unforgivable to me. The annoying and unlikeable characters only add to the bad experience of the film. Bollocks. 30%. (2014-12-03)