How much stupidity is possible?

Rating: 2/10 (20 January 2008)

This movie deserves two stars (rather than just one) because of three reasons: first, there are two or three jokes in the dialogues that are obviously funny by intention; second, the makers came close to a strong ending before falling back into the cheap pseudo-moralistic vein of their narrative; third and most of all, the screenplay which certainly is one of the worst I ever saw, manages to be so messed up that I almost enjoyed myself (sadly, though, in the second half of the movie get's lightly better so that it isn't even funny anymore).
Obviously, the idea was to develop a kind of drama among the people in the supermarket. However, this would have demanded a screenplay much more thought-out than this one. The positions as presented in the movie couldn't have been more unconvincing and simple-minded. The screenwriters might have learned a lot by reading Jean-Paul Sartres Huis clos (or even by watching The Blair Witch Project).
And by the way, if anybody wants to teach me a lesson in morals, he or she should first study the relevant texts by Aristotle, Petrus Abaelardus, Thomas Aquinas, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant and others. In this movie there is only mindlessness and stupidity. How far, far away are masterpieces like Night of the Living Dead, the (original) Texas Chainsaw Massacre or even Hitchcock's Birds that unmistakably served as a model for this unworthy successor.