Male Camp

Rating: 6/10 (13 September 2011)

I call this movie Male Camp. It's full of sexy guys doing sexy things, punctuated by ultra- violence. There is just enough art mixed in to lift it above the fray...but I couldn't help feeling like this movie was a Maxim Magazine article come to life. Was it entertaining? Sporadically, yes. But it was also overly-manipulative, slow, and mostly just silly. For what it's worth, the shots are gorgeous and the performances are wonderfully serious considering the ridiculousness of the...and I use this word ever so lightly...plot. The whole package is either a tsunami of irony or an ocean of pure silly violence, depending on how sympathetic you are to the director's vision. So if you love action films but wish they were slower and artier and campier, boy do I have a movie for you.