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Sam Gold (Jesse Eisenberg), a mild-mannered 20-year-old Orthodox Jewish man, risks being ostracized from his religious community when he becomes a drug mule for his best friend's older brother.
It's a surprisingly cool little film, not funny at all but rather seriously torn between the secular and the sacred, a conflict Eisenberg expresses with a neurotic intensity.
It's not a terrible movie, but all the way through you feel as if you've already seen it.
June 25, 2010
Chase Whale
The one and only problem I had with HOLY ROLLERS was the pacing. I found myself getting slightly bored and at times, looking at my watch. I'm sure it's not easy to mesh Orthodox Judaism and Ecstasy, but Asch did a pretty good job.
The scenes of family conflict are sketchily dramatized. We never get to the place where the two parts of Sam's personality meet -- the devoted son and sharp-dealing criminal.