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Liv (Atala Arce) and Chuck (Jake Taylor) have nothing on their mind but
spending a romantic evening together, but then, while Chuck's in the
shower, Teddy (David Harper) shows up, dressed up like a pizza guy, pizza
box in hand, and he wants to hand Liv the pizza, no matter what, but apart
from neither her nor Chuck having ordered pizza, he also seems incredibly
creepy, so she pushes him out rather rudely and locks the door - to find
him on the couch in the living room. And it now becomes apparent that he
wants to kill her, and it's really fortunate that Chuck comes to her
rescue and kills Teddy to save her. Still they decide to not call the
police but saw him into pieces, and then drive the pieces into a different
part of town in Teddy's own car. And there's where they misstep as Teddy's
a serialkiller that has shown up on the police's radar, and detective
Minaya (Jeremy Jordan) is actually observing him, and when Chuck drives
away the car, he follows, believing Chuck to be the killer. Of course,
finding the bodyparts in Teddy's car only supports his suspicions - and
Liv has to kill him to save Chuck. Chuck makes a call to an underworld
connection of his (Natasha Missick), who promises him to get rid of the
corpses in return of him doing her a favour - a favour that ultimately
ends with him and Liv finding themselves tied up in the garage of sadistic
psychopath Clark (Mikael Mattsson), with detective Minaya, who has turned
out not to be dead at all (yet), and the only thing that Clark enjoys more
than killing is torturing. But to make matters more interesting, he has
brought Butch, no other than Teddy's brother (and thus also played by
David Harper), to join in the fun ... Chop Chop is a
rather brilliant darkly ironic thriller following Murphy's Law of whatever
can go wrong will go wrong, and playing it out to multiplying
proportions, really. And a steady pace really sees to it that the audience
never gets bored, while a nice balance between suspense and violent
outbursts keeps one at the edge of one's seat throghout, with director
Rony Patel not shying away from the gruesome parts without ever trying to
gross out just for the sake of it. And some very solid performnces only
help making this a pretty cool movie.
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