Awful....simply awful

Rating: 1/10 (21 February 2009)

This movie, on the eve of the Academy Awards, is the perfect example of the Hollywood elitists trying to show the rest of the country how on point they are concerning social issues. Too bad they backed such a terrible movie. This movie is filled with every single cliché that is out there about race. Ohh, the jaded white cops, the poor Mexican and the stock black characters: one thug and one black person trying to work their way up in this world, but being held down by "the man". This crap made me want to vomit all over myself. And, for the people comparing this to anything directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, you know nothing about cinema. Even the somewhat mediocre (in my opinion) Punch-Drunk Love was 10 times better than this drivel of a supposed "character study". Just because a movie is about doesn't mean people should have to fall all over themselves to say how great it is, like the Academy choose to.