Love indie films. This is a boring waste of nothing. Good performances by the two leads but all for nothing. What was the point?! Very frustrated.

The movie distinguishes itself by focusing on a uniquely troubled character. More delusional than psychotic and less clever than scrappy, Marty proves to be one of the "great" losers to grace the screen in the past few years.

Starts out as sorta the basement dwelling, distant cousin of Office Space but becomes more of a cautionary tragic tale of a drifter with the moral of the entire story being - don't steal office supplies. Would have preferred a different ending but still a solid and amusing indie flick.

This starts off fun enough. Burge is great throughout, but he isn't enough to carry the film once the flow of events gets a bit routine and less interesting. Some nice comedy bits early on, esp. the work scenes at the bank. Potrykus was very good as well as one of far too many Dereks out there who can't seem to grow up to full adulthood and move past sub-middle mgt. at best. The title is apt and Marty lives up to it. He's a scavenger of opportunity, as most all vultures are. Cashing the checks and returning office equipment he never bought, he preys on the innocent. Customer service is there to help you in easiest possible way, with under trained, under paid clerical workers. Marty also knows this, and how to take advantage. He preys on Derek for help, who just wants to be his friend. I did appreciate the ending. It's a clever image with the screens,which works on a couple of levels. As one of the Marty's divests itself from the screen, we see some alarm on the actual Marty's face in recognition that he's lost part of himself in a sense. Then he appears again in the screen, walking past as if just aimlessly drifting through life. Very indy. 2.8 stars

Josh Burg definitely has a style . Loves making the slacker clerks style movies where most the movie is just back and forths between two losers spewing non sense and dumb ideas that would sound terrible if presented to anyone with any common sense . With all that in mind, I certainly don’t hate a slacker film 2.4

This strange indi film is a mixture of punk, nihilism and plain stupidity. It stars strong and fun, but in the second part runs out things to say, and a cute finale is not really enough to save it all.

What does a rebel do when there's nothing left to rage against except himself? This darkly comic character-study about a low-level scam-artist is a fantastically odd auteur effort that is so very much of its own. Burge is perfect as your basic punk-rock misfit with an endlessly compelling face and demeanor. Brash, down-to-earth, hilarious, unsettling and gross, though not in content but at its core. A descendant of films (Taxi Driver, Napoleon Dynamite) with its middle finger firmly in the air at them.

A few good scenes from a very unlikeable character.

A punk rock Napoleon Dynamite.

Very cool movie. Went into it knowing nothing and was greatly surprised. Definitely worth a watch, or two.

uneasy to watch but fascinating at the same time

Great film in which the satire never overtakes the character being examined.

It's interesting to a point but just uncomfortable to watch at times.

Outside of a fairly well told story and unique direction through the low budget capabilities of digital filmmaking, Buzzard seems to lose its grip after the first act and never seems to get it back

Yes, it's one of many modern films focusing on angry and aimless white males, but "Buzzard" distinguishes itself by focusing on a uniquely troubled character. More delusional than psychotic and less clever than scrappy, Marty proves to be one of the "great" losers to grace the screen in the past few years.

If you watch this film just to see the second part of the treadmill scene you will strike comedy gold. It is one of the funnies scenes I've seen in a film in a very long time.

7,7. The last 20 seconds... was that really necessary. The three minutes scene when he eats spaghetti...wtf. Otherwise it was good and original

Richard Linklater's seminal debut Slacker introduced a new kind of anti-hero into the world of indie cinema. A weird mix blend between bum and punk, these jobless but idealistically carefree characters live from one moment to the next without any regard for modern societal structures aka - "The Man". Almost 25 years later, and the slacker persona is still going strong, albeit in a the form of our metalhead protagonist Marty (Joshua Burge). Directed by Joel Potrykus, Buzzard is a sort of reincarnation of the early 90's mumblecore. While the film feels ridiculously low budget, Potrykus takes his serious DIY attitude to the filmmaking process and his passion for his characters shines through. Marty is your ultimate deadbeat. He is a temp at a banking chain where he spends his time trying to cut corners and make a spare buck or two by stealing company supplies and reselling them at OfficeMax. His seemingly only friend is coworker Derek (played by Potrykus), a videogame obsessed manchild living in the self-proclaimed "Party Zone" which is really just code for his parent's basement. Things get hairy for Marty when a scheme to cheat his company out of a few bucks pathetically backfires and forces Marty to be on the run from the law. Buzzard is a film teeming with brilliant, original, and often hilariously awkward and confrontational ideas about anti-capitalism and deadbeat culture. The cinematic execution of these ideas is where Buzzard falls short. Potrykus is a very gifted writer and his enthusiasm for his characters is obvious. However, his moments on-screen as a character are mostly awfully-acted and the bromance between him and Burge fails to resonate. Buzzard is an amateur production and it sadly shows in everything from the makeup to the lighting to the editing. However, there is something uniquely charming about Buzzard and especially Burge's portrayal of Marty that makes the film a compelling watch. It starts of with a bang of energy set to heavy metal that gently escalates into violence. The third act surpassingly makes a sad but sincere attempt at bringing out the emotional core of the story; it would have worked perfectly if the film had been given a solid editing treatment. If you can stomach the student-level acting and production, Buzzard is an authentically funny entertaining film reminiscent of early 90's indie film. It also showcases huge potential for director Joel Potrykus and actor Joshua Burge.

This is Napoleon Dynamite for the metalheads out there: loud, strange, lazy and anarchaic! And what an effective use of the Power Glove!

Joshua Burge is more than a little effective in playing an angry, unmotivated and wanna-be grifter. If you've seen Potrykus's previous film, APE, you already know that this actor is exceptional at slipping seamlessly into this director's off-center and often uncomfortably funny cultural and intimate examination. There is a lot more brewing in this very dark movie than the sociopathic rage simmering within the protagonist. It is a an odd, jarring and disturbing story of descent into madness within a culture that almost seems to be assisting this descent rather than identifying and addressing it. And most importantly, it is always entertaining.