ultra violent, degrading towards women, horrible movie

Rating: 1/10 (16 April 2005)

I usually go by the ratings on IMDb, and agree with most of them, but how has this movie gotten an 8.3? I was shocked by how violent the movie was and got pretty angry by the way it glorified violence towards women. Just another film noir piece with guys in trench coats and women who are prostitutes. Who writes these things, and why are we supporting these adolescent male fantasies of women wandering around wearing practically nothing and the men who attempt to "save" them? (Often committing their own acts of violence against women.)
I couldn't believe how many people got hacked up in this movie. Everyone was violent; there weren't any characters I could identify with and say "now that's a good guy" or "I really like her character". Everyone was screwed up. And the dialog sucked.