What a waste of time!

Rating: 1/10 (31 March 2008)

This is the first time I leave a comment on a movie here on IMDb. Before leaving for the cinema I had a look at the score and I found it was 45th in the top 250 (plus 4 Oscars and 83 other prizes). I knew I was in for a violent movie, but I was also expecting a satisfying experience having appreciated Cohen brothers' work in Fargo. The ending was met with a stunned silence by the audience (expected, since the ending is one of the most abrupt I have seen in years). A middle-aged couple who entered the theater and sat beside us about 30 seconds after the movie had started even asked us about the beginning of the movie to learn if they had missed anything that would make sense of the narrative mess they had just witnessed. All my friend and I wanted back were the two hours of our life we had just spent watching one of the worst displays (IMHO, of course!) of violence for violence sake and unsympathetic and mono-dimensional characters produced for the silver screen. Judging from the reactions of our fellow spectators, I can safely say that most of them agreed with us.