Genuinely scary political correct propaganda.

Rating: 1/10 (10 September 2009)

I didn't go to the movies to see this one. I saw it on television and I hated it from the first battle with those security officers. Let me say why. Using Tsjaikovski's 1812 overture is a complete misuse of it. Tsjaikovski wrote the piece to celebrate the victory of the Russian armies against the armies of Napoleon. Napoleon, as we all should know, was a product of the French Revolution. The French Revolution was heavily anti-Christian and heavily anti-monarch while the Russian monarchy was heavily Christian and aristocratic. That is in complete contradiction with the theme of the movie. Since the intellectual explanation of the use of this piece just doesn't work I suspect the creators of this movie choose the piece because it has a lot of noise in it the last 15 minutes. This explanation is pretty shameful for a movie that pretends to be intellectual and ground-breaking.
But these shameful intellectual mistakes go on and on and on. Take by example the Islamic terrorists who are, later in the movie, suddenly not responsible for their actions. Just like the thought that Muslim extremists doing actual harm was just too much asked. Talking about Islam, you should look up how Christians and basically everyone else is threaded by their fellow Islamic citizens in Islamic countries. And no, you won't see that in this movie.
This movie takes political correctness to a level that is genuinely scary. All gays, lesbians, Muslims and the chief-terrorist V are happy campers while Christians, the building of the British parliament (one of the centers of battle against Nazism), police, the army are the symbols of hate and oppression. The rest of this movie is basically the same. The pharmaceutical company (symbolizes finance capitalism that brought the welfare everyone here in Europe lives in) is the staging ground of fascism. However blatant and unsubtle it never gets original.
There is however a link to the book 1984 that people will easily miss. And it is called "doublespeak". The EngSoc regime in 1984 destroyed the concept of freedom by destroying it linguistically or turning it around. Freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, war is peace. This movie does exactly the same with Christianity. The movie's tag-line should be "Islam is good, capitalism is fascism and dictatorship is bad". Not very original you say? Well, neither is this movie so it does fit quite good.
This movie is bad. Not bad in a way that is innocent. Like those hack&slash horror movies are bad but don't do anyone much harm. But bad in a way that it is next of being evil because dumb people might actually fall for the trap of believing this propaganda. And propaganda always works if it isn't opposed. You should read something about the verbal poison Joseph Goebbels produced to know that.
1/10
If you want to see a movie that actually shows what it is like to resist to an oppressor, see the movie "Sophie Scholl". It has, contrary to this movie a believable ending, believable bad guys and some real good acting.