Monday, September 26, 2016
Rant
Political movies are hard to watch.
First, they reduce hard issues to soft cinematic mood pieces. Second, because they are one sided and usually preach to the crowd. If you are not part of the crowd, well, too bad.
Today's film is about the world arms market. It stars Nicolas Cage. Mr. Intense. He plays an asshole, type casting, and he is the cold, hard hearted arms merchant.
Ethan Hawke in a neat buzz cut is the Fed who is after him.
Ian Holm, a favorite, is a father figure to them all. Another kinder dealer.
It is all bogus bullshit. No doubt based on facts but the cartoonish nature of the film is hard to take.
Rant and more rant.
Of course, the arms dealers are terrible people. Period. Don't make me watch them for two hours and try to make them human.
Just do not.
I am not sure how I ended up renting this. I will be more wary in future. A 2 out of Netflix5. I had to FF through the weepy shit and the talking heads. Also the bloody killings.
