Wanted
I wanted to like it, even though I went in with low expectations.
Really, I wanted a mindless break for two hours, a way to turn off my brain and not to think about my friend, someone I love, who is Not. Waking. Up. and things are looking worse and worse.
And for the first half, I was somewhat entertained. Granted, it was wildly over the top, but kind of cool in playing by its own rules. I was going with it. But about 2/3rds of the way through, there's this train vs. car chase sequence that came into play, and I could pinpoint the exact moment on-screen, when the train brakes were pulled, and the rest of the movie was shattered glass and bullets coming out of the backs of heads and so much blood, ad nauseum, the complete disregard for human life (villain or innocent) was so overwhelming, the effect was so numbing, I wanted something else.
To get the fuck out of that movie theater.
I hated that movie.
And the truth is, I don't know if I'm feeling overly sensitive to what I was seeing, or if it was just a pessimistic piece of shit about a guy with a lackluster life becoming an unlikeable, amoral, asshole killer.
I'm going to go with the latter.
Really, I wanted a mindless break for two hours, a way to turn off my brain and not to think about my friend, someone I love, who is Not. Waking. Up. and things are looking worse and worse.
And for the first half, I was somewhat entertained. Granted, it was wildly over the top, but kind of cool in playing by its own rules. I was going with it. But about 2/3rds of the way through, there's this train vs. car chase sequence that came into play, and I could pinpoint the exact moment on-screen, when the train brakes were pulled, and the rest of the movie was shattered glass and bullets coming out of the backs of heads and so much blood, ad nauseum, the complete disregard for human life (villain or innocent) was so overwhelming, the effect was so numbing, I wanted something else.
To get the fuck out of that movie theater.
I hated that movie.
And the truth is, I don't know if I'm feeling overly sensitive to what I was seeing, or if it was just a pessimistic piece of shit about a guy with a lackluster life becoming an unlikeable, amoral, asshole killer.
I'm going to go with the latter.