Eagerly hoping for something deep for 2.5 hours, but got nothing

Rating: 3/10 (16 December 2007)

The movie quickly setup my emotions by the cruel gunshots and merciless killings. I naturally expected something deep out of the blood and bullets. Yet after 2.5 hours of waiting, when the movie ended, I was still waiting. I am sure I was not the only one. Everyone in the movie theater was unwilling to leave. Everyone could not believe the movie had ended. What was the point of all the violence? Maybe this was exactly the main theme of the movie: violence without a reason, but one cannot help be violent. 'You don't need to do it.' Well, I have to say if this was really the deep message to be conveyed, I was totally not moved. Certainly people had to make tough decisions. The hunter chose whether to water the dying men, the killer attempted to give chances to his targets by coin flips. But I just could not feel any real struggles of them. They just made decisions pretty arbitrarily without too much thought. In real world everyone has to make equally serious decisions everyday! Were they special in any sense? The impossible carelessness of the hunter was annoying. Bringing the money using the original suitcase without a check. Sitting upright in front of the door to wait for the enemy's attack. Bold? Illogical? I was also hoping that the movie would tell more about the virtual and the reality related to the cop. Got much less than I expected.