Point Could Have Been Made More Gently

Rating: 8/10 (8 October 2000)

This is an interesting and unusual film with great acting, directing and production values. Unfortunately, the film grows tiresome after the first few thrashings. The message is a good one, but the delivery is a mess. The sad thing is that lots of testosterone laced young ones will probably get the wrong idea and take the more brutal and sociopathic parts seriously and even model this behavior to some degree. Can't the idea of rebelling against social brainwashing be made less violently? There must be a gentler way to show that all we need is shelter, clothing and food...everything else is just filler and working twice as long as you have to to clutter up your life is madness...making a national past time of watching oversized men run into each other in a futile attempt to bring a ball across a line on a field is sheer lunacy. A film that gets people to think is a great thing. But there must be a better way to do that than this one does it.