7/10
It doesn't live up to greatness, but it is still a good comedy worth renting.
11 February 2013
30 Minutes or Less is an action comedy starring Jason Eisenberg, Aziz Ansari, Danny McBride, and Nick Swardson.

Summary: Nick (Jason Eisenberg) is a pizza delivery boy whose life changes when he gets kidnapped by two wanna-be criminals Dwayne King and Travis Cord (Danny McBride and Nick Swardson). The kidnappers force Nick to commit a bank robbery. With ten hour for detonation on the bomb, Nick asks his best friend Chet (Aziz Ansari) about situation he is put in and anxiously asks him to help him rob the bank. As the timer ticks, the two must deal with the police, a hired assassin, flamethrower, and robbing the bank.

30 Minutes or Less handles to be a good funny movie. It offers various kinds funniness and cruel violence. A young man strapped in bomb around his chest, in order for him to survive is to rob a bank. It's a harsh way of seeing it, but it is amusing in some degree.

The cast in this film is pretty good. Danny McBride's does a fine job as his character. He plays a role of a straight up wanna-be thug. Eisenberg, who indeed does a fine job playing a pizza delivery boy who was caught up at wrong place at the wrong time. Imagine yourself strapped with a bomb around your chest. Your reaction will obviously be scared shitless. Eisenberg succeeds in that role. Last off their partners in crime, Nick Swardson and Aziz Ansari, supply the comical side with enough appealing character fancy and plot moments to lift them up on top of the typical sidekicks.

Overall: In the end 30 Minutes or Less is what I call a good comedy. It offers many amusing moments, plays a decent story with well thought out acting. It is definitely worth as a rental.
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