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Loved The Last Movie Star so I streamed this on Amazon. I came away underwhelmed. A little too much Penn Jillette for one movie and basically one joke about his character being obsessed with Missi Pyle.

Since Laserdiscs and even more so DVDs and Blu Rays (and who knows what's next apart from streaming), the special feature that involves filmmakers and stars or crew commenting on the movie you're watching, the question is, if sometimes the movies may only be entertaining or watchable with the audio commentary on. It's certainly true with most films by Uwe Boll and it's a feature you get here for free.

I do wonder if there will be an audio commentary for this one. Which would be breaking more than just a fourth wall, which the movie incidentally does already. It's funny and it's a gimmick, that does pay off if you like this sort of thing. Some jokes (most of them actually) are not really sophisticated, but rather low and simple. Still this was a lot of fun to watch and the actors obviously had fun doing this. Sit back, relax and enjoy this silly fun too then

Well I'm fans of P&T so maybe I'm biased but I liked this movie. Penn is at his heaviest and looks really old with the dyed long hair. He looks so much better today.

Anyway in some weird way the whole thing works!

With this premise and the paring of Penn and Adam Rifkin, I was expecting this film to be hilarious but I didn't expect it to be so nasty! I really liked the way that they used this wild way of making a movie but part of me was left wanting more strong female characters. I get that it's from the perspective of the lead character who is a horrible man but I still think they could have found a way to make the female characters feel more than one note. That being said, this movie is wild, it's hilarious and it's very weird. Will watch again.

This movie isn't funny, in fact after about 15 mins I was ready to throw my remote through the screen just to shut Penn up! Oh and all his dumb goofy faces he makes through this entire thing, never have I ever, wanted to punch someone in the face so hard, in my life. Skip this garbage.

Full disclosure: I contributed enough to the crowdfunding site to get invited to the premiere and meet Penn and Teller, so I would have enjoyed the experience even if the movie had been terrible. Luckily, it wasn't.

The plot is pretty original. It's about - surprise - a crowd funded movie. One particular contributor - Herby Blount, played by Penn - donates enough money to hang out on the set and even film with his own hand-held camera. It turns out he's obsessed with Missi Pyle, who, like all the actors, plays herself. He uses his footage together with raw footage he steals from the movie to cobble together his own version of the movie, in which he's the hero. What we're supposedly watching is the director's cut of *that* movie, with his commentary. How meta is that? The result is something of a cross between a classic "movie within a movie" and a "found footage" documentary.

It's really two separate movies. They create a good part of the movie "Knocked Off", a low budget but completely credible slasher/horror movie, and they also create Herby's amateurish additions and edits. During the Q&A, they claimed all of "his" editing and special effects were done with free software that a crazy person really could use.

The acting is quite good. The main characters in the "movie" are Missi Pyle and Harry Hamlin. She in particular does a good job of playing both her role and herself playing her role.

Of course, the whole thing is narrated via Herby's (Penn's) "director's commentary", and that's where all the humor comes in - and it is very funny.

All in all, a quite enjoyable movie.

The description of this film wasn't as clear as how it would turn out as watching. The writers tried to make it something more clever and thought provoking than typically how it should have been. It isn't entirely bad but it feels quite forced to a point where it becomes annoying with the constant narration through the film. It ruins the flow of the actual film as the character of Herbert (the director narrating) is incredibly unlikeable, annoying and is the center of attention. It started off as intriguing with the constant obsession of the character of Missi Pyle then turned further thought provoking. Overall this film is nothing but a gimmicky mess and it's nowhere near funny as it should have been.

Great piece, throws the movie rules out the window and twists its will onto the screen.

Quite a bland movie with not very funny plot as it seems to be. A gimmick may pays off but some jokes are not that sophisticated. Though movie is wild and hillarious but I am expecting more from the female characters.

Not a cookie cutter formulaic film. I thought it was really well done. Definitely worth watching. Incredibly original.

Full disclosure I was part of the crowd funding for this movie. So understand also that the anticipation has been building for a very long time. Over the years we have been hearing how good the movie turned out but for a large part of us we have only just now got to see the final product. If I wasn't part of the crowd funding for this movie I would have still loved it. It had me laughing the whole way through. So often when trying to make a movie like this it comes across as trying too hard, however in this I think they managed to hit the right balance.

Even though knowing so much about this movie going in didn't spoil it for us, I'm still going to give it some time before discussing some of the finer details. I will say this, you can't make a movie like this without an incredible group of talented people. Missi Pyle was simply phenomenal as always ;). I can't wait to watch this over and over again.

Others have already explained the plot so I won't go into that here. Let's just say that Director's Cut has a lot more layers than you might expect. The underlying cop drama is beautifully shot and Herbie's director's commentary is very funny.

There are numerous throw-away one-liners and inside jokes and some of the special effects will have you laughing out loud.

The car chase near the end was spectacular!

Okay. I, too, crowdfunded this movie and got to see it at the LA premier last month. But I can honestly say it is a wonderfully meta crowdfunded movie about a crowdfunded movie and a crazy crowdfunder who takes his crowdfunding duties a little (or a lot) too seriously. I rank Penn & Teller Get Killed amongst my all time favorite films, which I mention because I suspect you might need a particular sense of humor to appreciate that movie as well as Director's Cut, but if you get it, it's awesome. I am proud to have helped in my little way to get it made. If you like quirky, self-referential, fourth wall shattering, intelligent and irreverent art, this movie might just be for you in a big way.

Loved this movie. It gave me an almost behind the scenes feeling. It was like I wasn't watching a movie but more like peeking in on something really, really weird happening. The writing was on point, funny but in a really smart and creative way.

Penn does with movies what he does so expertly with magic and illusions. He shows us how the sausage is made with his commentary. He blends humor into the film by making the narrator unreliable and buffoonish. This movie is not about "The Movie". This is an awesome example of meta movie making and tearing down the fourth wall. Extremely clever and original. I want more of this!!!