Does this great actor need the money? Serial killers and Medieval torturers aren't just getting their jollies anymore. They are our most profound moral beacons and sublime teachers. And the current era of utter dehumanization, insane sociopathic "leaders", and a species with an average IQ 30 points lower then the Stanford-Binet Wechsler scoring of 50 years ago means their teachings are HEARD. And it isn't even the real killers, especially the minority of them, the caught high profile ones, who, to a man or woman, could give a flying **** about teaching you or me anything, though while they aree in play they occasionally like to teach law enforcement that they are idiots. And I disagree. They are certainly intelligent enough to let the "perps" do all the work, then pinch them, then steal everything that they went to the risk of obtaining. The jurisprudence prevents nothing, always arrives after the fact, catches less then 10% of all "criminals" , and exists as an independent useless agency that pays itself as a small tip on top of what it steals. The whole system is rotted out. If it can't be taxed, it's criminalized so the worst thieves and mass murderers of all, who control the military and money (hyperinflating rapidly) , get paid offf withevery breath we take, while they are depopulating the planet to return us to a technically driven feudalism, where a few geniuses will be allowed to live as private well "paid" slaves to a globalized system of controlled ownership. Putinland, Bezosland, Trumpland etc.
Movies like this, Repentance, Law Abiding Citizen, Se7en, Dot Kill ,Resurrection, Unhinged, to name a fraction of the current crop, are all telling us the same story. The nut jobs of the world theologians and priests, mutilating and ripping their way, ascribing endless lives, except their own, usually, FOR US! By us I mean those who manage to settle matters without filling swimming pools with blood and dismembered body parts.
It's not that I don't see their point. Most people are worthless irredeemable garbage, out to steal everything they can from you , and savagely hurt you as a bonus, true, and it elevates the argument for all of us becoming Judge Dredd, since the wealth needed to properly insulate ourselves is only in the hands of the world's worst thieves and murderers, but they are the only ones who cab "legally" declare war and murder and steal. We don't need Oscar Wilde to remind us life imitates art anymore. All people do is watch this ad-man imagery and let these actors guffaw all the way to the bank. They get a drink of water when they're thirsty. We get some web pics of the ocean. But enough of this science fiction (?) and on to the business at hand...
How can the guy who did Last King of Scotland and been in so many terrific flicks wind up in this thing? Money, a good agent, a good lawyer, and an actors exhibition and shamelessness. It has some interesting plot threads. Part horror, part ghost, part dramatic tragedy, at best he brings an offbeat touching sense to it at moments, with his daughter, with his sledgehammering (to the audience and the victims) realization that the crazy aren't as crazy as they seem. In fact they are the only ones who really see. His evil anti-psychotic meds washed down the sink to underscore the righteousness of primitivity and the epiphanies that psychoses reveals, the holiness dementia confers, Forest
This much of a spoiler, though he kidnaps and tortures an entire family, in the end he releases the 2 living victims, and we see him blithely strolling down the street, holding hands with his daughter who shares his clairvoyance, unpursued, when within moments the national guard would be surrounding him in reality, and utterly unconcerned, since, having confirmed his wild ideas as true, obtained as they were from slightly unusual duress, inadmissible evidence, he's now spiritually released and pain free.
Well, torture murder is a soothing balm for some folks. There are still traces of Forest Whitaker in this mess, we know he can play a jocular sadist and hit man, and also be the most soft hearted kind of guy, but usually it's one or the other. This time it's a mish mosh. But even with his brilliance he can't overcome the the craziest part on this movie ABOUT craziness, and that's the script.
If you're a die hard fan of his, I guess you have to watch. He's a terrifically talented actor, so you keep looking, and you won't get me putting him down, I just wonder why he took this silly role? Maybe he had a bad shrink at some point and this is his statement, but that is something I think better reserved for politicians, presidents, or lawyers.
Movies like this, Repentance, Law Abiding Citizen, Se7en, Dot Kill ,Resurrection, Unhinged, to name a fraction of the current crop, are all telling us the same story. The nut jobs of the world theologians and priests, mutilating and ripping their way, ascribing endless lives, except their own, usually, FOR US! By us I mean those who manage to settle matters without filling swimming pools with blood and dismembered body parts.
It's not that I don't see their point. Most people are worthless irredeemable garbage, out to steal everything they can from you , and savagely hurt you as a bonus, true, and it elevates the argument for all of us becoming Judge Dredd, since the wealth needed to properly insulate ourselves is only in the hands of the world's worst thieves and murderers, but they are the only ones who cab "legally" declare war and murder and steal. We don't need Oscar Wilde to remind us life imitates art anymore. All people do is watch this ad-man imagery and let these actors guffaw all the way to the bank. They get a drink of water when they're thirsty. We get some web pics of the ocean. But enough of this science fiction (?) and on to the business at hand...
How can the guy who did Last King of Scotland and been in so many terrific flicks wind up in this thing? Money, a good agent, a good lawyer, and an actors exhibition and shamelessness. It has some interesting plot threads. Part horror, part ghost, part dramatic tragedy, at best he brings an offbeat touching sense to it at moments, with his daughter, with his sledgehammering (to the audience and the victims) realization that the crazy aren't as crazy as they seem. In fact they are the only ones who really see. His evil anti-psychotic meds washed down the sink to underscore the righteousness of primitivity and the epiphanies that psychoses reveals, the holiness dementia confers, Forest
This much of a spoiler, though he kidnaps and tortures an entire family, in the end he releases the 2 living victims, and we see him blithely strolling down the street, holding hands with his daughter who shares his clairvoyance, unpursued, when within moments the national guard would be surrounding him in reality, and utterly unconcerned, since, having confirmed his wild ideas as true, obtained as they were from slightly unusual duress, inadmissible evidence, he's now spiritually released and pain free.
Well, torture murder is a soothing balm for some folks. There are still traces of Forest Whitaker in this mess, we know he can play a jocular sadist and hit man, and also be the most soft hearted kind of guy, but usually it's one or the other. This time it's a mish mosh. But even with his brilliance he can't overcome the the craziest part on this movie ABOUT craziness, and that's the script.
If you're a die hard fan of his, I guess you have to watch. He's a terrifically talented actor, so you keep looking, and you won't get me putting him down, I just wonder why he took this silly role? Maybe he had a bad shrink at some point and this is his statement, but that is something I think better reserved for politicians, presidents, or lawyers.