A Film Review of: Though I'm sad to say it, Cleanskin

Rating: 1/10 (13 September 2012)

A Film Review of: Though I'm sad to say it, Cleanskin  This disgusting shame of a film is an extremely violent film, and, in fact, opens up promising enough, if one would like to call it that, but, like most movies, fails to deliver. The bad guys and good guys get switched up in your classic "switcher-oo" and viewers get confused with who is who. Good and evil, and morality, in general, get so confused in this film, that deals with the classic old playing-cards of Islam versus other depraved bad-guys made to look good, is so twisted, it shows two nice- looking-Algerian/Moroccan-type fellows (I wondered at first thought how much they got paid to do this?) who cause wanton mayhem when they follow these two thuggish-brute-looking guys who have no more morals than they. Bored yet? And, then, as if it couldn't get any worse, the film commits a big no-no when this same fat man whom the two Muslim-stereotypical men are attacking, is shown in the first scene in bed with a hooker. Now, if that isn't a "sin" in all ways, I don't know what is...But the hooker is Indian which complicates the racial matters of this film all the further. Indeed, I saw for a fact, amidst all the mock-images the film goes through in its intro., to make itself look legitimate, there is a flurry of crosses. Now, that is just wrong, yet, again, to coincide religion or, love (for that matter), or anything remotely positive, with violence. You can't have both (sexual imagery is often compounded with violence in movies because it apparently appeals to the testosterone in stupid males). Produced by "e-one Films" in 2012, as well as by Uk Film studios, it is rated R, is incredibly violent, and, stereotyped/biased. It should probably even be banned by film censors, but it, as far as one knows, currently isn't. A "cleanskin," or the term, as it was used in the film, though it wasn't immediately made clear to me in the film, is someone with no prior record in crime. Apparently, too, the main-man Muslim in the film, called Ash by his friends, has struggles trying to reconnect in the movie with his British main-stream counterparts who indeed try to put him down with little jabs, but welcome him on the whole. . . Indeed, this is a frightening film, if it is indeed an accurate portrayal of our times, which I think it is, albeit with a few twists and turns (lies/misrepresentations)... In fact, Sean Bean, who is made to look (although I am not sure if they achieved it, through their efforts) much younger than he probably actually is in real life; he may have gone through some fitness training to look better in the film, I just don't know. The suspense build-ups in the film are just excuses to make certain people look better, and certain people look better, in my opinion; it is just another sick movie, designed to desensitize the public to violence so that we can persecute those who don't appear to blend into our society (Muslims in this case.