Choke Critic Reviews

It's an indelibly warped cartoon of lust and despair.Read the full review

It adds up to an entertaining collection of vignettes strung together by a sarcastic loudmouth whose heart is breaking under his sophomoric bravado.Read the full review

Some stretches are very funny, although the laughter is undermined by the desperation and sadness of the situations.Read the full review

Yes, it's not for the squeamish or easily offended, but its sordidness is more superficially shocking than wickedly satirical.Read the full review

The movie veers with surprising ease between comedy and tragedy. Some scenes are hilarious; others are somber.Read the full review

Disappointing not for what it is but what it could have been.Read the full review

As the story of a wallowing pig, Choke is often pretty entertaining, but when it comes to where-do-I-come-from poignancy, it can't always keep from gagging.Read the full review

Cluttered, flavorless Choke, which crams the novel's nervy narration into an irritating voiceover, and leaps around in time and space with all the attention span of an ADD-addled child.Read the full review

Palahniuk's antic absurdism is duly present, but the hurtling pace and barely-underlying nihilism that transferred to screen so vividly in "Fight Club" aren't much in evidence here.Read the full review