I guess I don't get it.

Rating: 5/10 (28 May 2009)

I tend to agree somewhat with most of the ratings I see here. Bad Hollywood action movies get something like 4 stars - likely because there are enough tasteful people like me that drop a 2 star rating on them and pull them down closer to where they deserve to be. And likewise, there are enough tasteful people giving films such as City of God 9 or 10 stars, lifting them up closer to where they deserve to be. But for once I've stumbled upon a rating I simply can't understand. 8? Seriously? This film gets an 8? How about Burn After Reading for a dark comedy that ACTUALLY deserves an 8. I've never entered a comment on this site before but now I feel I must: Apparently this is a parody of Hollywood action movies. The problem is, there's nothing funny about it. This film is EXACTLY like a bad Hollywood action movie. Exactly. I may have well watched The Fast and the Furious; I would have been just as bored. This film was so close to the real deal that I was at least a half hour into the film before I realized that perhaps it's just a bit TOO ridiculous and could be a parody. Very difficult to make it through this one. I couldn't wait for it to end, but of course just when you think the last bad guy is gone, yet another bad guy pops out of the woodwork for one last over-the-top action scene - JUST like the real thing. They PURPOSELY made a bad film that goes on for 2 hours. And that's supposed to be the joke. But what's the point of that? You could have made that point in a ten minute comedy-sketch. No bad film deserves 8 stars - even if it did an outstanding job of being intentionally bad.
I've never seen The Fast and the Furious but I'm pretty sure I would have given it something like 2 stars. I gave this one a 3-star bonus just for making fun of a genre that deserves to be made fun of, so it gets 5 stars from me.