Envy (2004) Critic Reviews

Black somehow feels reigned in; shaved and barbered, he's lost his anarchic passion and is merely playing a comic role instead of transforming it into a personal mission.Read the full review

One of those cinematic curiosities that almost always fade quickly, but that will usually find a devoted cult audience once it hits that peculiar Elysian Field known as the aftermarket. Read the full review

Envy is in the unenviable position of saddling two of Hollywood's most talented comic actors with a script that doesn't do them justice. Read the full review

The laughs tend to come in fits and starts, built around individual set pieces rather than being generated organically out of the storytelling. Read the full review

A woeful little comedy that runs out of steam shortly after its opening sequence. Read the full review

Can't decide whether to be an eccentric black comedy or a middle-of-the-road diversion. Read the full review

With all the dog dung in Envy, it's almost too easy to generalize that it stinks. But it does, unfortunately, despite the big-name actors in its cast. Read the full review

Squandered in foolish horseplay and on a story that zigzags so far out of control that it feels as if the screenwriter, Steve Adams, pasted together a bunch of zany notions in a frantic search for confusion. Read the full review

The film is neither fish nor fowl nor some arresting new entity, but a lumpish coagulation of conflicting impulses and unrealized gestures.Read the full review