The ultimate reality show.

Rating: Null/10 (30 November 2001)

This movie is more real then any of us want to believe. Why do people think there is no plot. This movie has an excellent plot. Just because you don't know the answers to all the questions like a traditional (willis/cage/arnold/travolta/stallone) action movie, doesn't mean that there is no plot. Most movies attempt to tie up all the loose ends and give a nice easy to understand package. In the first five minutes you already know that mendoza/rodriguez/castillo etc. is the bad drug dealer and you basically sit and watch while the hero with a tough name goes and gets him. "Good work Steel! You'll make sergeant for this!" "Thanks chief!" That's not how this works and that's now how reality works. And yes there's a lot of weird characters in it, but there's a lot of weird characters everywhere. Spend a few minutes listening to people instead of avoiding them and you'll be shocked at the amount of characters you run into. A crazed vet - I know several, a aging hippie who just wants to be left alone - I know him too. Now we all know that pornographers, porn stars, and rich old men with bad intentions exist so this isn't a stretch. The oddest things would be the German Nihilists, but is this that much of a stretch? There already exists a similar popular German stereotype from Mike Myer's "Sprockets" bit on SNL.
It's the other movies that are fantasy. An akward kid who makes the team because he's got 'heart' and wins the admiration and respect of his peers. A dorky girl who gets a makeover and becomes popular. A rogue cop who shoots 50 people and solves the case himself, even though he's "off the case". A romantic comedy in which the male character does things that would get him arrested for stalking in real life. Horror movies in which the victims deserve to be killed due to their own stupidity. Woody Allen sleeping with attractive women.
So in summary, mind if I do a J?