This movie just plain Sucks

What a great place America! Two wannabe critics cut each other to shreds and then politely finish the conversation...lol

OK, since you are being both serious and civil now, I will give you just a couple of reasons why this movie actually did SUCK:

Sometime in the early 90s, Hollywood Directors finally stopped trying to compete with the Porn Industry in the "Love Scene Department". They realized that in order to compete, they would have to actually get the audience off. To do that, they would have to accept an X or triple X rating for their movie; plus the fact that not too many A list actresses would do an anal scene...lol. So gradually, we started to see more skin, but waaay less sex. A smart director "implies" that two people are screwing, then fades out of it and gets back to the story.

I can tell you from experience, that when you get to the cutting room stage of production, and you realize that you've got 'SQUAT', the Producers, and Director (in order to try and salvage their budget) fall back on Sex and extreme violence to market their flick to the lower IQ viewer who would buy a ticket only to see the aforementioned.


When the first love scene between Wilde and Hunnam went longer than 30 seconds, I did what thousands of other bored viewers did....I went and took a leak.
When I got back to the couch and they were still going at it, for what seemed like 20 minutes later, I knew the Director was either trying to salvage whatever footage he had to make a buck, or he had the Hots for Wilde and that's what this mess was all about from the beginning; he was an idiot, or he was trying to win an AVN award. Whatever the reason...those over extended love scenes took any possibility of the word "Great", out of the description of this waste of celluloid.

Bana's character was underdeveloped and uninteresting. He made some poor acting choices, however, I'll admit that he didn't have too much logic to work with.
The character he was playing was Bi-Polar. He kills half the Police Squad, and then saves a little girl and her Mother from an abusive Stepfather. He could have acted a lot more 'twisted', and make the character a character you'd always remember, but he just read the lines on the page.

The scene at the Thanksgiving dinner with the rifle laying on the table unattended while he was eating, was just bad story telling. Then when the Police Chief shoots his daughter in the back, (because she's wearing Bana's jacket) without even trying to take down Bana in a semi conventional manner, but pops into the room and blasts away at a table full of innocent people....I just shook my head.

In fact, I found myself shaking my head many many times watching this 'thing'.

I could go on for hours.....but in general, it was a waste of talent, (except for Hunnam, who proved he can't act his way out of a paper bag) that would have been better put to a script that had some substance. I hope this Director retires after this film, because he's proven he can't make good choices, (just deciding to make this mess) and he can't get even mediocre performances out of A list actors.

Well...there's a couple of reasons it sucked Wonderboy....

Oh...P.S. I'm an Eric Bana fan. I thought he was great in "Munich", and "Troy".
Now there's a "Great" movie for you.......Munich.
When someone uses the word "Great" when describing an Eric Bana Movie, they should always compare it to a flick like Munich.

In fact, I think I'll pop that in the Blu-Ray player right now. :)