Love, violence, violence, violence, love, violence and again love...usually this is the perfect formula for mass hypnosis. I mean, the movie starts well, the story is well written (altough it is far from realistic), well edited, well directed, well acted. This is the reason i gave it a 4. But the message, oh my god, the message is very problematic here. It is clear that violence is a downward spiral, and that only love can saves us from falling in it. Because hate is just the absence of love, just like darkness is the absence of light. And this movie treats this subject apparently pretty well, just until the end, when Kilmer's "hero like" voice sentences "Protects your family at all costs, even if you have to kill again...because if i would be forced i will kill the entire planet to defend mine". WHAAAAT???? Is this the final morale? To kill all other's families to defend yours...so that your family is more important that the other's families? If we would thinking like that it will surely be a disaster for everyone. But hey, this is exactly what the American government is trying to convince us to do. To think only at our asses (or American's asses in this case). We all know how important our families are for us, there is no need to remind it at all. I think that to defend my brother or my mother is just like the first Isaac Asimov's law. It is deep coded in me. I will surely give my life for them, and i want to believe this is true for every normal person on the planet. But "to defend them from who" is the real problem here. Because what i've seen, by now too many times, is that the enemies we are "forced" (like Kilmer's said) to face, most of the times, are not real at all. On the other hand, is it what happened right in this movie?
Sry for bad English.
Sry for bad English.