Sucked - Kelso meets Ultra-Violence - Spoilers

Rating: Null/10 (9 February 2004)

If pedophilia, burning animals alive and maiming kids with explosives are your thing, your movie has arrived. I heard the bad press, but felt that at the very least it would be a mind-numbing thriller. Through the course of the story, we are subjected to the most horrible fringe elements of humanity. The characters ricochet from bad circumstances to worse as Ashton travels through time until the viewer is wondering if this story will ever decide to end.
This movie made me almost physically ill and for the first time ever I considered leaving the theatre early. Unflinching violence is the standard for this movie. It contributes nothing, other than to create an atmosphere some mistake as 'gritty' or 'dark'. Sickening is more accurate. For this, many will consider me a prude, or that somehow I don't 'get the movie'. No, I got it when Issac Asimov was writing stories about these same ideas fifty years ago. Miraculously he didn't feel the need to involve kiddie porn and prison rape to get the point across.
There is such a thing as cheap shock value, and the Butterfly Effect is choked with it.