anti USA :(

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2009)

Well - I was real excited about seeing this one...that is, until I saw the preview trailer about 5 mins ago. So I'm going to write a pre-judgement, and then go see it to see if I have to eat my words. OK?- here's my prediction:
We've all seen this plot 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times. Guy has mission. Guy falls for girl on enemy side. Girl complicates & compromises mission, and guy questions / doubts his mission. etc. Blah- I'm tired of it.
Secondly- By the reviews I'm reading, it seems most people will swallow the anti-American message of the film as long as the eye candy "tastes" good. Isn't the US being portrayed as a "raper" of foreign-owned resources ? (or maybe there were some Nazi SS patches on their sleeves that I didn't notice... But gee those accents sounded American to me).
OK - there's my pre-judgement based on the short trailer. I'll go see it and do a post-review and eat my words if I'm wrong.
ps> the music in the trailer is beyond cliché. I'm pretty sure I've heard it in car commercials.
** UPDATE ** DEC. 22: OK, I've been around the internet looking at various opinion posts from sites are *aren't* promoting the movie (which generally means they're more honest), and the general consensus is that the movie's story & general 'message' is cliché & blah. Visual fx is the only thing I hear that's good. So I still haven't seen the movie, but I'll see soon and post whether or not I agree. But since so much effort was made on visual realism, I'm going to bump my original rating up 1 notch.