Gun movie highlights what's wrong with America?

Rating: 1/10 (22 December 2012)

I'm a fan of action movies, so I am used to violence on the screen, but, really, how much blood splatter do we need to see? The opening shotgun blast with blood-spurting body propelled backwards across the screen has requisite shock value, and you could say it is justified given the premise of the movie, but do we have to see it time and time again? This is otherwise a well-paced, suspenseful sci-fi movie – not particularly original – but it does its best to cover implausible time-travel tracks that raise more plot problems than they could possibly answer. Ultimately though, it lacks the hallmarks of good sci-fi - an interesting vision of the future or a telling projection of present-day society - and becomes just a gun movie than glorifies violence. OK, I confess, I've been deeply affected by recent events in Sandy Hook, but this movie shows children hunted down and killed, and Bruce Willis armed with twin machine guns, moving room by room through a building and systematically slaughtering all before him. This movie is a role model for the criminally insane, and it revels in unnecessary violence and gun glorification that does nothing to enhance a derivative script that is more violence fiction than science fiction. Wake up Hollywood!