ridiculous and morally bankrupt

Rating: 2/10 (6 August 2006)

What a joke of a film. Never have I seen senseless violence promoted as key to success... as if threatening someone showed strong character and will. The film is needlessly violent, horribly predictable, and dabbles in exaggerated, petty pseudo-gangs, that promote nothing but brotherhood, team patriotism, and, well, beating the sh*t out of each other just because. Elijah Wood is completely out of his element, and is not believable at all. Some big-name Harvard near-grad gives up and life and joins some senseless bloodthirsty gang after only just one day out with the boys? Yeah, my freaking' ass. And that the gang-leaders knowing brother will thoughtlessly send Elijah out with the boys and expecting everything to be alright. Stupid, stupid, stupid.