Horrible Bosses (Seth Gordon, 2011)

Three friends with awful employers hatch a plan to do away, in the fashion of Strangers on a Train (which is knowingly quoted) with each other's tormentors. Naturally, it all goes pear-shaped very quickly.
The initial part of the film, in which the bosses Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston and Colin Farrell, respectively a tyrannical sociopath, amoral nymphomaniac and coked-up prick, is good fun as they take turns in chewing up the scenery. Unfortunately, as this is very much in the depressingly enduring tradition of gross-out comedies in the mould of The Hangover at al,  it becomes progressively less interesting under a barrage of puerile cock, drug and race gags which are, of course, also borderline homophobic, sexist or racist, because the protagonists are, after all, three regular white Joes. It could have been so much better with a little more restraint and the courage to be darker.

5/10