Review – The Darwin Awards

If this had just been a movie about the Darwin Awards, it would have been a much better picture. The sequences that show people falling victim to their own stupidity are entertaining, but they should have left out the flimsy plot that strings them all together. Joseph Fiennes stars as an ex-cop trying to sell a theory about stuipd accidents to an insurance company, and Winona Ryder plays a claims investigator paired up with him while he proves his case. This is also one of those productions where just about everyone in California plays brief roles. And I do mean everyone, from Lawrence Ferlinghetti to Metallica to the guys from Mythbusters. Mildly amusing