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What I didn´t like

posted 14 years ago by cory-latimer
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*I posted this in a thread and then decided to create a new thread*

I liked the first half of the movie, before everyone started getting murdered.

One thing in specific that I didn´t like was how Lindsey met Slevin at the airport after she knew he was an assassin. It was out of her character and very unrealistic. In real life, a self-respecting female professional like that would never abbandon her life and take off with a killer, and anyone who argues this point never has met one.

Though what I really didn´t like, one point I haven´t seen anyone else make (it actually disturbs me slightly the quantity of people who say they really liked the movie and that it had a brilliant plot) is the following:

This type of film promotes murder if there exists a ´just cause´ for the murder such as revenging the murder of loved ones. This brings to mind the quote ´an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind´. It´s films like this which are one part in creating a pro-violence popular culture which perverses the minds of impressionable people (especially, but not limited to, children).

We have US and NATO soldiers murdering innocent men, women and children in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan among other countries. I believe that the pro-violence popular culture is one of many culprits of this terrible loss of human life, not to mention the agony that follows. Senseless violence in movies, at some level, condones senseless violence in real life.

The heroes of the film are portrayed as bad-ass icons who plan a masterminded revenge. Some young males will look up to this and imagine themselves doing the same. What was really revealed at the end? A mindless and exaggerated murder spree in a massive act of revenge. Great message to our children, all so they could create a ´hip and witty´ action/suspense film and hope to bring in a profit. I ask myself how much time and money they wasted on this instead of creating a piece of real cinema.

[–] TRhett 9 years ago

That really should have a "Spoiler Alert" - just an observation. I agree . . . I liked it until about 60% through. And you're right about Lucy Lui's character . . . I thought she was MIScast (as in Charlie's Angels), everyone else called it "cast against type" (what's the diff?). As for the "just cause for murder" - That DOES pick up a biblical thread (Exodus 21) and one of the "bosses" is a rabbi, so that might explain it. I've never been a big fan of Josh Hartnett, but I have to say after seeing this and "30 Days of Night," I'm beginning to re-think that (although I think he's just a natural in front of the camera . . . doesn't seem like much work goes into it, unlike say . . . Brando, Streep, Dench, etc.). I suppose that's a good thing. Overall, I'd say 6-1/2.