Especially revolting to those few Americans left with any aesthetic or civil sensibilities

Rating: 1/10 (1 March 2008)

An insidious crap, useful to enable future generations to analyze the diseased imagination of the society that would, in the twenty first century, destroy the whole world. I wish I could say that movie is unintentional satire, like for example "reality TV", but no. I wish I could say that perhaps, like Peckinpah, the violence in this picture is enough to turn people, even those with violent inclinations, against violence. I wish that I could say that the sadism is enough to disgust the sadistic, or that the whole thing would turn people against what it depicts. The reasons it won't are: that is is very suspenseful without much plot (or point), that it poses somber pontificating as profundity, that it depicts human struggle, and fear, and suffering as irrelevant to any theme, i.e. as moral non-sequiturs. Like today's television programs, but with special perversity, this movie takes advantage of Americans, 14% of whom are so ignorant that they can't find their own country on a map. I imagine the makers are cynics. There are different kinds of cynics. I mean the kind that laugh all the way to the bank.