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By Tom Charity from LOVEFiLMDogme filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg explores America's fetishistic gun culture...
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Action with flair...
By pigtiger from Suffolk , 06 Dec 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
If you look at this film as a piece of art, and you just want to enjoy a damn good story without searching for metaphors or morality then you’ll be delighted. Its nicely paced, looks beautiful and the performances are very good indeed. The writer and director both claim that there’s no message about guns/America’s attitude to guns in the film, and that stands up. I can, however, also see that people will argue that there is a distinct message about violence, but I’m also certain that you could find equal amounts of people who see an anti-gun message and those who claim it glamorises firearms.
The actions of the gang may seem extreme, but anyone who has spent even one day feeling “left-out” can identify with the fervency that the group succumb to once they finally feel that they belong with a group of like-minded individuals.
The film doesn’t give me a chance to do one of those lazy “x meets y” reviews because I can’t think of a similar film. One can recognise aspects of Lars Von Trier’s other works in the script and certainly in the graphics, but the director has stamped his own style on the film.
For those of you who do want one of those lazy reviews try “The Breakfast Club meets The Quick and the Dead” – now that’s got you wondering…- Was this review helpful to you?
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(42)Guns Are For Kids - Yeah?
By Cato (705 reviews) from Lydbury North , 23 Jan 2013This film has all the appearances of a film for adolescents, but there's a deeper satire here in that it's a reflection on the gun culture which is a large part of the American psyche,and which has very much come to the fore in recent times. It's a very well done fim and superbly acted, but was it ever going to bring about a more pacific side to America? Probably not. It certainly hasn't stopped the plethora of gun related stories in recent American films.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Rather uncomfortable
By sailonby (108 reviews) from Exeter , 04 Jul 2011A stylish but ultimately uncomfortable film which says something about the fascination, and destructive power, of guns, and about the shelter afforded to the inadequate by gangs. It made me shudder somewhat.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Terrible, don't bother.
By Jcat (6 reviews) from London , 16 Jun 2009So, the first half hour is fine, good introduction and you expect it to move on with some in-depth charactor building, but thats where the film decides it can't be bothered anymore and decends into dull, tripe. Constant narrative makes for child like over hard hitting points where it would be best to let the viewer watch the intricacies of interaction (there are none). Glorification of guns and in the end voilence.Desperate to be a modern day western, doesn't manage. I have seen reviews that claim it is forcing us to re-evaluate gun culture, this film has no such depth. Another piece of bland overindulgant time wasting with Lars Von Triers name all over it. One of the worst films I have ever seen, and I have seen thousands.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Dreary Windy
By LarryKetang (1 review) from Manchester , 12 May 2009Inflated, pointless, painful nonsense!
The worst film i've ever had the misfortune of watching.
I rented this film at the weekend to watch with my wife... she left me half way through for a man with a VHS copy of Battlefield Earth.
The script appears to have been written on a broken calculator by a blind recess monkey. The characters are about as deep as 'prime time' Saturday night ITV, drawing no empathy what-so-ever from their bewildwered and some-what offended audience.
The best bit is the relief you feel when the credits eventually roll, and you begin creating a massive mental list of all the inept, time wasters involved so you never have to endure this kind of 'modern art' again.
I suggest rubbing a bag of angry wasps on your face instead!- Was this review helpful to you?
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Curiously average
By Sean Sansom from Wrexham , 14 Jan 2009From the director of Festen (+ writer Lars Von Trier), I was expecting a far more engaging work. The film certainly wasn't bad and, for that matter, was fairly enjoyable, but seemed to lack the substance I expected from it (either that or I simply didn't 'get it'). All in all, certainly worth a view but don't make the mistake of expecting too much.- Was this review helpful to you?
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