The worst reason for a movie.

***SPOILERS***


So you want to make an anti-gun movie, huh? Well, there are a lot of angles you could approach it.

There's the Western where one man puts down his gun in the lawless small town and takes on the local gang. But wait, that's an anti-violence story. Nevermind.

There's the innocent man wronged by a brainless brute who kills the man's wife & child in a senseless back alley mugging. And the man sets out for revenge, but once he has the evildoer in his sights he realizes how wrong it is. But wait, that's an anti-murder story. Nevermind.

Then there's the good cop who shoots a teenager involved, for kicks, in a robbery, and he comes to realize that shooting-on-sight a perpetrator who points a gun at a cop ..... wait, that's simply ridiculous. Nevermind.

But no, let's make a movie about jury rigging surrounding a lawsuit against the EVIL gun manufacturers. So you've got the most extreme case of jury rigging played against a lawsuit that has NO MERIT. But hey, it's a major Liberal cause, so it should fly, especially if we have a great cast of Liberals to help sell it, and an audience mostly of ignorant Liberals to laud it.

So let's acknowledge that the lawsuit in this movie is simply bogus. Okay. What about the jury rigging? There are two here, really. There's Gene Hackman's jury rigging as a "jury consultant" on behalf of the company. Then there's the jury rigging on the parts of Cusack and Weisz on behalf of victims of gun violence in small town (of all things).

So who will the movie glorify in the end? Come on.

FAIL.




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