Compared to my husband, he's nothing.

No Other Choice — 3/5

Had this been a tighter movie, it would have been a better movie. Asian Mads Mikkelsen is a surprisingly gifted comedic actor, but the beats play out for far too long. It's trying to be some version of 'madcap' but the added energy just slows things down. And so it fails to just be a fruitful "dark comedy." So more then is put on its psychological weight, and two interesting points that the movie makes, but points which start to push at each other: 1) capitalism will do us all in, but not before setting us against each other and 2) how we all just fall apart at the prospect of learning new skills and perhaps going down a rung in our class position. People are stubborn, and capitalism is destructive. I think the second point is easy to make, and I think the movie makes it easily and clearly and obviously. ("We fucked, fam.") The first point is more important, and harder to convey: we don't have to throw our bodies on the churning gears, but, when the hour strikes, we can choose to be nowhere near those gears. We have to lose something; but we may at least have a choice in what we lose. It's that choice to maintain what we've accumulated that fucks us in the ass. Anyway, I'm not even sure the movie was trying to make that point but I think that's the point that I would have liked it to make.