Michael Burrows, a hemophobic criminal profiler loses his job when his disability allows a serial killer to escape his grasp. So he takes his top-notch skills to an insurance company, where he claims he can profile high-risk people who cost the company millions of dollars a year. He is put into a probationary role with a partner investigating a series of bizarre insurance claims.
This is a hysterically funny film, which stems from a relatively simple premise. The film takes the best stories from the Darwin Awards and incorporates them into the plot, including an army surplus rocket powered car, a lawyer throwing himself through his own window, and a pair of stoned metal-heads crashing a Metallica concert. Literally. It’s like the X-files, but with insurance claims. I think that’s the easiest way to summarize it. That being said, this movie isn’t necessarily terribly clever, or original, but it is a decisively funny combination of elements that haven’t been mixed before.
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