I'll be seeing it this Friday. Glad to know it'll be interesting.
"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
I went in expecting more propaganda, but really their wasn't much. Plenty of bad behavior all around and really what can you expect in a world with everything falling apart. Even if you lived in a part of the world that wasn't fucked, you'd still have to deal with all kinds of imported fuckedupness that you are bound to attract.
I give two thumbs up to the camera work and the acting. Clive Owen did what Clive Owen does best: go through the entire movie without so much as cracking a smile or showing the faintest bit of emotion: yet it still worked perfectly just like in Croupier. Some of those single-camera action takes literally had everything in the theater visibly forward in their seats for long periods of time. I never felt like I wasn't in the thick of things from start to finish.
The storyline was a little better than 'meh' to me. I guess I'm growing tired of the old 'we must band together and sing cum-bah-ya or else we are DOOMED' storyline. I thought some of the more politicized aspects were rather blatant and could have been left out without effecting the overall feel and pace however. But that was just me.
A definite must see though!
“We have competent people thinking about this stuff. We’re not just making shit up.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson
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