Great ending, everything else quite dire

Rating: 5/10 (2 April 2006)

I find this film hard to watch, not because of the violence, but rather I don't really care about the characters to want to keep my eyes on the screen and found myself looking at something else more interesting half the time. All I can think of when I do watch is - "Why?".
Of course it became clear why towards the end. And it is also clear to me that the film relies on the boys' fascination with violence to keep the film going until the ending when you can see what is happening, at which point it actually got quite thrilling. Otherwise there isn't really anything that is very interesting, just a middle class boys' fantasy of a more exciting existence while living their own very comfortable but dull lives. It's for boys who get stuck in this contradictory existence - hating the good life they have, wanting to destroy it but in truth will never give up their comfortable lifestyle. It's as stupid and as childish as the insertion of naughty bits into the film.
It is for the ending that it got higher vote that it did, nothing much else to recommend it otherwise.