«Drinking Buddies» is helped enormously by its relaxed pacing, exuberant alt - rock soundtrack and
photogenic lead players, all of whom are still young
enough to drink copious glasses of hoppy libations without one broken blood vessel or expanding waistline.
Upon arrival they do not find King Kong but, alas, someone far smaller and less
photogenic, mercenary Mathias Vogel (Walton Goggins), whose goons lord it over a gang of poor souls unfortunate
enough to have been dashed upon the rocks there.