A film that doesn't trust the audience
A fun film that's severely weighed down by the filmmakers'
overbearing need to pack the story with "messages". Satire is fine, but tedious public service announcements just distract from the main story, which is pretty good otherwise. There is no subtlety anywhere to be found in this film. While this might be necessary so everyone can 'get it', I found my intelligence insulted, and my high hopes for this film were dashed. Pandering ruins a decent movie.. 
Pretentious moralisation and simplification
How is it possible that this movie has such a high rating? This film is
totally undeserving of the high praise awarded to it in this site, it is complete and utter rubbish. I was forced to watch this on an international flight and I would have escaped if I had the chance, but we were cruising at 36000 ft and I could not get out of the plane, so I decided to finish it only to come back and slag this steaming pile of post-digestive bovine refuse on the Internet. This movie assumes that the audience are a bunch of morons who need to be hit over the head with its moralising messages. Yes, we know that smoking is bad, but you don't have to make the bad guys smoke all the time. Yes, we know that the legal system in the USA is crazy, but creating a town full of lawyers is not only ridiculous, it wastes an otherwise interesting perspective. Yes, we know drug abuse is wrong, but there's no need to populate an entire town with rave-mad teenagers to let us know that fact. This is the modern version of 'reefer madness', a movie with the single purpose of selling its simplistic take on life to the unthinking unsuspecting masses. What a waste of Gary Oldman's talents.. |
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