Rating : 5.1 out of 10

Sometimes movies try to take an idea way to far, creating a Hollywood love story out of a cult Internet following, and not giving us enough of what we came for, which was strange deaths. We read The Darwin Awards to laugh at some of the darkest stories we can laugh at, and the movie failed to give us enough.

The movie starts with a little background of the main character, a man with an eye for detail and personalities who is obsessed with strange deaths and the stories that surround him. He has a kush job with the police station solving murder mysteries, which he promptly losses because he lets the bad guy get away after fainting (he has an aversion to blood).

Luckily for our hero another job with an insurance company is right around the corner. His new duty is to save the insurance company money by proving people are doing stupid things against their insurance policy. He meets Winona Ryder and falls in love, even though he has a hard time realizing it.

We do get a few crazy deaths, all of them taken from the most popular Darwin Awards we have all heard. The guy who crashes his car into the side of a mountain after strapping a rocket to the back. The guy who tested his bullet proof glass by jumping through it (turns out it wasn’t bulletproof). The couple who turned on the cruise control of their RV thinking that it was autopilot.

These death’s are far and few between in the movie though, and we are forced to sit through long stretches of poorly put together dialog. The whole side story doesn’t add anything to the movie, and leaves us impatiently waiting for the next crazy unintentional suicide. They even misspelled Winona on the movie’s website, once correctly, and once with a y, like Wynona.

Even with the movies great cast including the guys from Myth Busters and my favorite Juliet Lewis, who does get fucked in this movie much like all her movies, The Darwin Awards fails to hit the mark. The great idea behind the movie is never realized.

Great for wasting two hours, I give this movie a 5.1 out of 10.

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