Action Point. The worst movie of the year.

Just a godawful waste of time. I was never a big fan of Jackass, or any of that early 2000s dudebro humor, but the premise here involving a safety-free amusement park seemed quite perfectly matched to Johnny Knoxville's act.

How wrong I was.

Absolutely NOTHING in this "film" (it's barely a film at all, clocking in at 80 minutes including outtakes) works at all. There is not a single laugh to be had, and you can feel the desperation in every scene. Everyone involved clearly knew they were in a hopeless situation. Knoxville himself looks alarmingly haggard.

None of the stunts and physical gags here are funny. All of the bigger ones were in the trailer, and none elicit so much as a chuckle. They aren't carried off with any of the sort of prankster energy of Jackass, and in this case they are there as part of an actual story that is a thundering bore.

The "plot" is just a useless thing involving Knoxville bonding with his daughter, and there are a few scenes played deadly serious that are just  stunningly bad. The weird framing device involving old Knoxville (in Bad Grandpa makeup) has no purpose in being there.

I'm sure the movie was made cheap, and Paramount made money in the past with Knoxville, but somebody over there needed to step in and realize this is not something that should have ever been released in theaters.

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