"Evil'd Enough"

4 February 2025

3 mins

A bigger, funnier takeaway.

At three times the length of the 60" version of the Uber Eats execution we featured earlier this week, you might reasonably expect this edit to have three times as many gags. But you'd be wrong... it has way more than that. And it's not just that it has more jokes, it has better jokes. Better written jokes, and better paced jokes. This is three minutes of comedy perfection... but what else would we expect from David Shane?

In this version, there is so much more playfulness and nuance, and we really gain a sense of the megalomaniac’s weariness. Javier Bardem 's character is portrayed as having intimidation so hard-wired into his soul that he can think he's being benign, and still be the most terrifying figure imaginable. The way this elevates the sycophancy of his acolytes even as they try to tune into his wish to step away from evil is not just hilarious, it's instructive in an era where sooner or later we're going to have to deal with those possessed of stratospheric levels of narcissism.

Time and again, David Shane has demonstrated a mastery in the fine art of celebrity wrangling, especially for this client. His fantastic 2023 film for Uber with Robert De Niro and Asa Butterfield didn't feel like it could be surpassed, but this one is as good, if not better.

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