Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I think Jesse Eisenberg is only one really acting in 30 Minutes or Less. The rest of the main cast plays the same characters they always play. This isn't a bad movie, it's just not as funny as it could have been. The story is interesting, though, and it has a few laugh out loud moments.

This film tells the story of a pizza delivery man, who sees little future in his job because people abuse the pizza delivery pledge. One day, he is kidnapped by two criminals. An explosive device is strapped into him, and he is forced to come up with $100,000 in exchange for his safety.The plot sounds funny on paper, but the actual film does not work at all. The story is very silly, to the point where it becomes annoying instead of funny. The supposed jokes are unnecessarily over sexualised, and I honestly don't need to see tasteless scenes in the form of a lap dance. The robbery is very unbelievable, I just don't believe how effects can turn it that way. Actually, the whole film is unbelievable and annoying. I wish the film was 30 Minutes or less, but it wasn't.

The premise of this film held a lot of promise and I honestly believe that with better writing that it could have turned out to be a really good film. Alas, it turned out to be one of the worst films I've seen.I'll come back to the writing problems later in the review, but first I'll discuss my other issues with this film such as;CHARACTERS & ACTORS - Jesse Eisenberg annoys me and for me he just seems to be another Seth Rogen in terms of his characters and actors being interchangeable between films. He just seems to have no range at all and very little talent as far as I'm concerned. Then we come to his sidekick Chet (played by Aziz Ansari) - he managed to be even more annoying than Eisenberg which I felt was incredible. I think the worst scene involving these 2 characters was the scene where they trade insults where they were trying to out insult one another. This scene culminated in a childish scuffle and just wasn't funny at all. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that it was painfully unfunny. WRITING -Dwayne and Travis (Danny McBride and Nick Swardson)are the 2 men who coerce Eisenberg into robbing a bank. They plan to use $100,000 of the stolen money to hire a hit-man to kill Dwayne's father The Major (Fred Ward)in order for Dwayne to get his father's inheritance so that he can set up a tanning salon. Based on the amount of time that Dwayne and Travis spend discussing this tanning salon you would think that it would have some relevance to the plot, but no it just seemed to be a plot device that served no purpose. So it begs the question; why did the writers waste their own time and our time factoring this in when it served no purpose? I also thought it was stupid that Ansari was able to sneak up on a trained hit-man and knock him to the ground. This resulted in Eisenberg stealing the money back from him. All this happened when the hit-man had his gun pointed at Eisenberg. It stretches credibility that a civilian with no formal training could get the better of a trained assassin so easily.The final 10 minutes of the film were also completely ridiculous and I'll admit that I laughed, but ironically I was laughing at how bad it was.The only good thing about this film was Fred Ward, but unfortunately he was only given limited screen time and limited material which was a shame because he was pretty funny in the brief screen time he was afforded. I suspect that due to the fact that he was only on screen for 5-10 minutes that this was probably just a pay cheque film for Ward. Although he was good, I doubt it's a film he'll look back on fondly due to how awful 30 minutes or less was as a whole.Mercifully this film is only about 82 minutes long (although it felt a lot longer). 30 minutes or less is an unfunny stupid film and it's only Fred Ward that has prevented it from getting a 1 out of 10. Avoid at all costs!!!!

Such a pity, but this film sounds promising, and has a promising plot, but I'm afraid to say it fails on all accounts. Except for a great opening scene with Jesse Eisenberg driving head over heels in his rotten 80'ies Mustang to deliver pizzas within the promised 30 minutes or less, to prevent the pizza's to be free, there's nothing here! You can stop watching after 5 minutes! Or, to make fun with the title, don't watch more than 39 minutes!The problem is that to fill a great plot, you've gotta have a great script. And as this is a comedy, it should be funny as well. I stead thus is like film filled with high low budget school comedy language and humor. I didn't gave one single laugh throughout the film. I still give it a 4, due to the following: A promising and great opening scene, which still is a film I'd like to see. A great plot, which still is a film I'd like to see. A-class actors Jesse Eisenberg and Fred Ward, which I still like to see. A great budget, which I would have liked been used on a good film.Unless you like like unfunny comedies based in great plots, stay away. Life's too short, and there are too many good films out there to enjoy. Please do!