deliberate unimaginative gratuitous violence as the message.

Rating: 5/10 (7 March 2007)

I had often heard what a great movie this was but after watching once only, in cinematic terms, this movie offers next to nothing; all I remember is actors acting like very bad guys doing very bad things to each other-a Tour De Force of violence; no art, no resonance, no message, no catharsis, no cinema; nothing but really stupid violence. I went away with that disappointed forever feeling, yuk, shrug, and ho-hum. I know I'm castigating the heart of what made this film so well known but this is the way I see it. I think it takes more than just a few lines of wise-ass dialog to make a worthwhile movie- where's the "movie" movie part?