This Southern Gothic crime drama is the final (non documentary) film directed by the legendary William Friedkin. 'Killer Joe' is adapted by Tracey Letts from his stage play of the same name. Emile Hirsch and his father Thomas Hayden Church hire "Killer Joe" (Matthew McConaughey) a corrupt Dallas police detective who moonlights as a hit man, to kill their despised mother and ex wife respectively; this is in order to get the $50,000 in insurance money to be received by their sister/daughter Juno Temple, a flighty innocent with a sexual edge.
Many complications arise, Hirsch and Church are not too bright, Church's current wife Gina Gershon says it's not a good idea, the ex (who we only see briefly dead) turns out to have a boyfriend and Killer Joe embarks on a sexual relationship with Juno as "a retainer" until they get the money. Also, not everybody here is giving the straight story. Rated NC-17 for nudity and violence, this is by no means peak Friedkin, but it's still an involving 102 minutes. ***
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