5/10
I really liked the first one. This one is stylish and exciting, but makes no sense. The characters are no longer desperate and believable, they are absurd in contrast to the schoolteacher played with such genius by Takeshi Kitano in the original, we have another who just left the panto stage by the looks of it. The plot is simple, the references obvious (The Alamo/Butch and Sundance much?) but its message is unclear - are we, in this day and age, really meant to be siding with terrorists? I mean, things aren't always blacka nd white, but this seems distasteful especially since the shot which opens the movie is these terrorists levelling 7 or 8 city skyscrapers full of people.
I am undecided as yet as to whether this weird message is hateful or not, but at the moment it gets a "meh".
Friday, January 9, 2009
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