this is not entertainment

Rating: 1/10 (13 December 2008)

This is nearly impossible to sit through. It is a dull, plodding story with contrived situations that aren't even comical. There is no saving grace. But I finally sat through a showing to critique, and it could be used as a diagram of how not to make a movie for male audiences who aren't die hard Nazi party members. It's supposed to be about a blotched kidnapping of William Macy's wife, and one of the two men who did it is a psychopathic lunatic. To appease the females, and grab the large Nazi audience of the U.S., the director chose to contrive the plot so to kill any woman with hair darker than complete blonde. Women love movies that do this, since they like to imagine a world with less competition. And women usually make the choice of what movie to see in a household. The acting is horrid, too. They try to do the accent of Hoosiers and people further West, but real people enunciate much better. The accents are horrible, and show incompetence. But that is minor compared to the complete contrivance of the movie. Total flop.