Violent! (Small spoiler)

Rating: Null/10 (25 May 2000)

I had a major gripe with the media as I walked out of the theater tonight. This is one really violent movie. An SUV filled with people crashes into some other cars, then flips over and explodes. Part of a man's finger is snipped off. A plane full of people crashes into the side of a mountain. And there's a fight scene in the end where the good guy and the bad guy pummel each other 10 minutes longer than even the best fighters in the world could have lasted. But all this violence is okay because it's good ol' fashioned Saturday night TV-Chuck Norris-25 kicks to the head before they fall down violence, and the film is given a PG-13 rating. Meanwhile, Fight Club (a movie I absolutely loved), which only has three or four short, but realistically violent scenes, gets major slack in the media for its depictions of violence. Just as long as there's no actual blood, you could pretty much do whatever you want in a movie. You could probably shoot a man 15 times in the head in a movie, and as long as there's only one small wound with minimal blood the MPAA will let your 13 year old see it and the movie will be hyped as the feel good movie of the summer. This makes me sick