Red Rocket

A24 | Release Date: December 10, 2021

7.0	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 64 Ratings

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moviemitch96Dec 25, 2021

In this raunchy indie comedy, and directed by Sean Baker ('The Florida Project'), Simon Rex stars as Mikey Saber, a washed up porn star who returns to his small Texas hometown in hopes of getting by and starting anew. There, he encounters hisIn this raunchy indie comedy, and directed by Sean Baker ('The Florida Project'), Simon Rex stars as Mikey Saber, a washed up porn star who returns to his small Texas hometown in hopes of getting by and starting anew. There, he encounters his estranged wife, drug dealers, job-hiring difficulty, and a potential new romantic interest in a young 17-yr-old donut shop girl. Baker's the kind of director who specializes in what I like to refer to as "white-trash cinema", films that specialize in detailing the lives of the lower class and ghetto small towns and the poor sleazy people that live there. He did this with 'The Florida Project' as well, and he does it again here to somewhat amusing effect. The film starts off humorous and intriguing enough, but the further it goes on, the more trashy, sleazy, and all-around smutty and gratuitous it becomes to the point of no return. I couldn't have cared last about any of these hicks, and while Rex undeniably gives a confident, albeit rather cocky (no pun intended) lead performance, even he's near impossible to root for or sympathize with, causing trouble and BS everywhere he goes throughout the film from start to finish. And I'm sorry, but watching him try to groom a hardly legal 17-yr-old girl into a relationship with him and into the porn industry did not sit right with me at all! The story is wandering and aimless and just feels all-around pointless and like a whole lot of nothing by the time the credits rolled. Overall, it's a complete sleazeball of a film with zero redeemable characters and an excessively smutty story. No thanks!… Expand

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MetacriticOnurDec 28, 2021

bad
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adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36.
not good in any manner or degree.

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ajacquesDec 29, 2021

This claims to be the non judgmental view of a predator. That’s literally just acting like being a pedophile is ok. This man is a piece of **** of the worst kind. I liked Simon Rex before. **** him. Let his career die like it has been.

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movieViewer325Mar 18, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A narcissistic failed aging porn star, returns to his small Texas town to take advantage of everyone while proclaiming porn greatness and dealing drugs since no one will hire him. There is not one comical line in the movie. There is nothing to learn except narcissists are always lying, do not be fooled—everything they say is to make you part of their own game to take advantage of you. There is no caring at all FOR another person.… Expand

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QuangMasterJan 4, 2022

Boring. Long. Pointless. Depressing. While some may thrill at the crapulence displayed throughout this movie, most are likely to find the depiction of a creepy dude in the crotch stain of Texas civilization to be a bit of a downer.

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