The movie features strong performances from Ice Cube and Regina Hall as the barbershop’s owners and a funny reprise of Eddie, the ancient, opinionated barber played by Cedric the Entertainer.
There is plenty of grindhouse-quality mayhem in this outstanding punk rockers versus white supremacists horror thriller.
[...] for all the wicked plot turns and marvelously gratuitous carnage, the film’s greatest asset may be its realism.
Like non-cinematic life, it’s not very tidy, not completely comprehensible and no one is safe — a low budget movie where the filmmaker is in complete command of the chaos.
Tom Tykwer, oozing directorial confidence, guides this brisk adaptation of the Dave Eggers novel, featuring a winning central performance by Tom Hanks, as an IT salesman who really needs to put over a big sale in Saudi Arabia.
