My thoughts exactly. Maybe if the look was a bit more A-quality I would’ve been a little more forgiving about this film. I did get a few good laughs out of Choke.

But a lot of other things bugged me too. The flashbacks were waaaaay too much TV-movie-of-the-week melodramatic to me, filled with stilted and rushed exposition (by the way, I haven’t read the book, and I’m still not sure what exactly was going on between Angelica Huston and Sam Rockwell as a kid. All I got was that she did a bunch of drugs and they were somehow ripping off the foster home system?)

Also there were parts that played like straight-up shocker comedy that wanted to be taken way more seriously than they merited. The movie was just a bit of a mess …