Separately, just about every aspect of The Paperboy screams «instant
camp classic,» from the surreal miscasting of genial Midwesterner John Cusack as a feral, sex - crazed prisoner with a shaky Southern accent to Nicole Kidman's bizarrely stylized portrayal of a prisoner groupie who talks, behaves, and saunters about like a giggling, cooing, malfunctioning Marilyn Monroe sex robot to the fucking pirate eyepatch Matthew McConaughey wears
for much of the third act
for reasons far too sleazy and dumb to address.