Entertaining, but flawed

Rating: Null/10 (23 August 2004)

There are 1000 reviews of this film - I'll try to make it short:
**SPOLERS***
The acting is good (especially E Norton), the story moves quickly and is very entertaining.
As far as realism, I don't know about how neo-nazi gangs function...so I can't comment on that aspect. I can say this - when Norton gets back from jail and his ex-girlfriend is "all over him"...then 2 minutes later is shouting "kill him" (after she learns he is no longer interested in the neo-nazi cause) is absolutely absurd. I don't care how brainwashed she is, noone can swing their feeling like that - from "I love you" to I want your head blown off. Come on!
Also, it seemed to me that Norton's transformation was more due to thinking that the neo-Nazis/skins were all full of crap and involved in the "cause" for alterior motives (power, selling drugs, etc) - as opposed to thinking well, maybe blacks, hispanics, Jews, etc aren't so bad. He met one black guy who was friendly to him - and everything changed?
I could go on, but it's worth seeing - I don't want to push the negatives so much - it's definitely an interesting film...