With Tarantino involved, you knew it had to be really well-made sh1t.
Lots of cool cuts and one-liners and flashbacks and flashforwards and flasharounds and aspirations beyond the wonderful nonsense that has been proven to be his limit over and over again.
And it is.
But with Oliver Stone involved, you kinda figured it would rise above that.
But it doesn’t.
He called this a “positive” film??? Because you can go on an insane killing spree and not necessarily get gunned down at the end? So aspiring serial killers and ultra-anarchists…there’s hope? What horsesh1t.
Supposedly there’s some good “messages” here…like, violence is bad. And, people that condemn violence and are supposedly horrified by it, yet pay to see it, hear about it, read about it, etc…are a bunch of stupid hypocrites. Yeah no sh1t, Oliver. I didn’t need to see this to know that. And guess what? NOONE who watches this who DIDN’T know that will LEARN that. Either they’re too fcken stupid, or they don’t CARE in the first place. I mean, you say so yourself in the script…you know, the snake story?
Also, there’s an anti-mass-media message, which is pushed so hard along with the violence that the whole thing comes across as camp, lowering it to the level of ‘Hobo’ or ‘Troll 2’ or ‘Manos’, except Oliver Stone is a REAL director and these are REAL actors making a worthless pile of sh1t masterpiece.
And hey Oliver…you’re condemning glorification of violence and the mass media by remaking ‘Bonnie and Clyde’, except fake? Right…
Like so many other similarly violent and/or disturbing movies, most of the people willing and/or eager to sit through this don’t care about anything Oliver’s trying to say. They’re watching this because they’re sick fcks, inside or out, or both, and they enjoy it. Period.
Me, I’m done. Fck em.
Grade: C