the nuts & bolts 'men on a mission' wind-up is too long and too cliché-ridden for the final reel splatter stuff to ever truly justify the wait, but at least they really go for it with some crunching bones, exploding heads, juicy squibs, and so on. set/creature design is a little bland, in fact the whole operation has a reheated leftovers feel, but the relentless single night narrative runs cover by keeping lizard brains diverted. the key to a proper JJ…

Important that Chappelle's climactic callback is to his pitch for a superhero who is powered by sexual assault - "he rapes, but he saves," Dave reminds the roaring crowd. It'd be easy to dismiss this comeback set as dated politically incorrect ugliness, with Chappelle gleefully running the gamut from racism to homo/transphobia to Bill Cosby, but there's an underlying thoughtfulness to every bit, an interest in the complexities of human nature and behavior that makes for more than hollow provocation.…