Typical reinforcement of American prejudices

Rating: 1/10 (10 October 2010)

I don't feel that I need to say anything more detailed about this film than that it is designed, with complete cynicism, to reinforce the stereotype that Americans are the nice guys in the world and Europeans can't be trusted. That the villains have English accents is par for the course. That corporate rapacity is ascribed to them and not the Americans is a risible refinement in an era in which even the US military is being outsourced to rapacious and unprincipled corporations.
One comes to expect this from US film-makers. For example, thank goodness that the Americans in Mel Gibson's The Patriot were so nice to the black people. God knows what fate they'd have suffered if the British had won. But does the average US movie-goer not see through it? Not if the ratings are any guide.