Sundance Ruffians Melanie Lynskey and Elijah Wood Kick Butt in ‘I Don’t Feel at Home’

[...] bloody black crime comedies in which escalating gore turns to slapstick are pretty much an indie genre all their own, descended from Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie and populated with sketchy losers whose misadventures land them in increasing trouble until most of them are dead and nobody – including the audience – survives unscathed or unpunished.

She teams up with Tony, a tiny, weird neighbor played by Elijah Wood as a socially awkward waif who hides his ineptness with heavy metal music and martial arts training.

The details are less important than the glee with which Blair twists the genre and whips up a concoction that gets increasingly weird, violent and over-the-top, and the equal glee with which his unusual stars Lynskey and Wood inhabit their glorious misfits on a rampage, albeit a rampage to right some wrongs.

[...] the opening-night audience at the Eccles Theatre did more than that.