Paul Haggis wants to be God, the moral arbiter. But really, he's just Paul Haggis.

Rating: 1/10 (17 April 2007)

I hate this movie. Oh, did I hate this movie. It actually started all right, the music set the tone, the colors, the camera movement.. But it all went down hill from there. I can't stand it when a director is so self driven he decides he must be the moral arbiter of all things. It's like an Evangelical cornering you on the street and telling you why he is right, only he, not you, you won't be saved unless you follow God's way. Only the guy is delusional and he isn't really thinking of your best interest or God's, but rather his own. Paul Haggis sat his pompous royal Hollywood butt on a pedestal made of melted gold Oscar statuettes above me and told me: This is how it is, and it is no other way. I see this disturbing trend in films a lot these days (re: Steven Soderbergh, Darren Aronofsky, Alejandro Innaritu), I mean I can feel their perceived superiority over the viewer, instead of engaging them with a serious debate, which each of these films act under the guise of being open to, they closed the argument long ago in their heads. A movie like this insults me. Is there a universal truth? Most certainly. Does anybody understand it? No, and most certainly not Paul frigging' fried Haggis, as much as he tries to convince us he knows what we do not.