The Naked Man

I rented this movie with promise and anticipation. I put it in and enjoyed the 1st ten minutes of it. But then whenever Stix entered and murdered the family, the plot just died and kept going down with it. Some parts were somewhat funny, nothing that would make me bust a gut (no pun intended) I did enjoy the wrestling scenes, except when he started going crazy on all the wrestlers, it was kinda corney. This movie had my eyelids going down. Out of five stars prolly 1 1/2 It had a good start to it and then the bottom dropped out on it. Had potential...keyword...HAD

I mean, just look at the poster and you'll see exactly what to expect from this movie. It's done cheap and without much care, and Michael Rapaport is flying around like a moron, thinking he's very funny. This is a stupid, stupid movie.

This is not funny or ironic. It's not even amusingly absurd. It's awful. I had to fast-forward through the last ten minutes. Blue Velvet is one of my five favorite movies, and I barely finished this. Proof positive that I will try and watch anything with Rachael Leigh Cook at least once. NO STAR

The director has, on a low budget, created a tight script, with beautiful timing. Rapaport plays a pro wrestler (whose persona is "The Naked Man")/chiropractor who is thrust into responding to an attempted gangland takeover of his small town. Wonderfully acted from the chain smoking cynical cops, to the paraplegic gangster, to his Elvis impersonating enforcer, and finally to the biker girlfriend follower. All the little bits were perfect and the movie was a hilarious comedy.

Very meh. Weak comedy and cringey. BUT, if you like purposely made bad films, you'll like this. Cringey but laced with good intentions. Its alternative comedy.

When I saw the trailer for this movie, I thought this was going to be a comedy about underground wreseling. Man was I wrong. I found this movie in the comedy section, but I did not witness any comedy, just a lot of unneccessary and drawn out seens. There also was not much wreseling going on. I don't know how you make a seen where a man wearing a suit with his organs drawn on beats up a biker boring. This movie beat all the odds though. By shear numbers alone that seen should have been at least mildly entertaining, somehow though it was not. The only saving grace is Racheal Leigh Cook's character. Not really the character but how she was dressed. Its a sad production when a movie must credit a characters lack of clothing as its only high point. This had pretty respectable actors in it to. Do actors read the scripts before they take parts? I really can not write any thing else about this movie for I do not wish to recall my viewing of it.

One half of the Coen Brothers has co-written one of the weirdest and most intelligent comedies I've ever had the pleasure of viewing. Underrated actor, Michael Rappaport excellently portrays the inscrutable chiropractor/wrestler of which the title refers. The Naked Man features wonderfully quirky performances, equally quirky dialogue and a storyline just strange enough to keep anyone interested. Fans of David Lynch or John Waters, don't miss this!

When I saw this movie, I was on the one hand overwhelmed and on the other hand very disappointed. It is a tragic and in some parts surrealistic comedy that is standing close to Bertolt Brecht's theater dramas and his V-effect and the German Dadaism-Artists. It may be considered as a sequel or even as a conclusion of other Coen - movies OR as just a big piece of humbug. I myself was thinking between these two aspects for a long time. And I came to the conclusion that everybody has to decide for himself. The thing that was really fascinating were the characters: real types - to speak in the traditional language of drama - not complex protagonists made me think about the sense of this movie. And to come back to the title of this comment: It is really a thin line between a very complex piece of film-artwork and rubbish. Decide for yourselves!