Simply crap

Rating: 4/10 (28 January 2007)

Yes, "simply crap", and I'm not afraid to say it, in spite of the "critics" who made this movie jump in the IMDb Top 250. Does this movie tell a story as beautiful as Forrest Gump? Ask yourself that question frankly. Yet Forrest Gump is lower in the top than this stretch of blood, violence, and unrelated intermeshed dark fantasy and brutal war themes.
As to the reason why so many people voted this movie so high, I can only speculate: the nowadays public thirst for the violent, the fantastic and the unconventional (i.e. foreign films), in a desire to escape the everyday routine. After Hollywood producing some platitudes, or perhaps after the public getting bored with movies that simply entertain you, anything that's foreign is automatically looked up to. Same thing with the lame attempt at porn, the string of cuss words which is Y Tu Mama Tambien.
If any of these movies were American, only the closet sadists would sit through more than 15 minutes of them.