American History ... neXt

Rating: Null/10 (19 April 1999)

completely misses the point.
if you're going to make a movie that addresses the social commentary of racial tensions, please oh please don't let the cinematography be the best thing about the movie. just another vehicle for gratuitous sex (first scene) and violence. nothing new. typical hollywood. racial tensions confined to black and white. no balanced perspectives. no logic to the social transformation of norton and furlongs' character. norton is a great actor, but i didn't rent this movie to see another white boy spouting too lengthy monologues, blaming people of color for the state of this society.
i also agree with those who see this film for the tv-type of presentation that it is. it is way to simplistic in its stereotypical characterizations. takes basic film character types, and shows us their flaws (usually in predominantly unrealistic context); then further offends our intelligence by offering one scene after another depicting ideological transformations based on what ??
i mean, why would nortons' character bond with the black character that torrey represented ?? and then why would torreys' character have nortons' back when the white supremacists kicked norton to the curb. the story line didn't give us enough information to see these changes as believable; and these types of unrealistic transformations occur throughout the story ....
it amazes me to see so many praises of this movie. no wonder movies like "dumb and dumber" and "all about mary", have such mass appeal in the U.S.