Are you serious

Rating: 4/10 (9 September 2013)

Okay, I get this movie was trying to talk about important subjects about racism, how people are conditioned to hate others, etc blah blah... But this movie... this movie fails so hard at everything it's actually astonishing how bad it got. Don't get me wrong, it had a strong opening, and a lot of the visuals are very striking. Perhaps the most powerful image is of Edward Norton walking towards the camera, hair buzz cut and swastika tattoo popping against his skin. There was good stuff like that in the movie. Bad stuff was that this movie should've been about the younger brother. I mean, it starts with him narrating, it opens with him. Is he not the main character? Why is Ed Norton here stealing every scene like it's his movie? Get the eff out of here Norton. Uninstall yourself from this film. It becomes glaringly clear that this just another dramatic vehicle for Norton's career, and any statement it was trying to make was lost in that horrendous ending. I have never been so disconnected to an ending of a film, but this movie tries *so hard* to have this bull dramatic ending where the little brother gets shot, and I couldn't care less. I could not care less about this guy, his dead brother, and I blame the movie for creating a complete emotional dissonance within me. Eff you American History X, I thought you cared.