stupid movie

Rating: 5/10 (29 July 2007)

This is a visually impressive movie that features a distinct look and a very simple story that is easy for a big audience to understand.
Unfortunately, there's not much beneath the surface here besides a destructive pro-war ideology that promotes the most barbaric and abominable human tendencies. Violence is glorified at every turn. Those who aren't willing or able to fight are portrayed as the scum of the Earth.
The story has a great hook and an effective "David vs. Goliath" setup, but it basically amounts to a sequence of bland battles. Once the spectacle wears off, there's not much there besides hollow violence.
There are a few memorable lines of dialogue that have managed to permeate the popular culture, but they're the exception to the norm in this movie. Most of the dialogue is painfully on-the-nose and flat out stupid. The people I saw this movie with were laughing constantly at the stupid things the characters were saying.
You'll probably enjoy this movie if you're an insecure young man who wants to pump up his manhood by proxy of some homoerotic ultraviolence. But this is a silly movie that promotes an embarrassing ideology. Unless you're a big fan of action, I suggest you look elsewhere for your thrills.