Movie review - "Bad Santa" (2004) ***1/2

Billy Bob Thornton in a role made for him - a drunken red neck who uses his Santa act to rob stores. Because he's such a low down varmint you know he's got to come good one day - it's a movie, right? And he befriends a fat kid and you go "here we go". But the filmmakers manage to keep sentimentality at bay (although surely the ending was re-shot?It feels tacked on). Occasionally the concept of "this guy's Santa but he's really foul" does get a bit tiresome.