could've been a lot better...spoilers

I watched this movie last night, and was surprised that despite a compelling idea for the film, the end result was just alright. The characters themselves were developed only to the point of being caricatures, so we could look at them and then generalize. For example, we know there's the sell out, and the nerd, and the guy thats so into it he's off the deep end, and we have the leader etc. These respective aspects to their persons are really the only thing that drives them as characters. there's just not much else there. as i have also seen discussed the movie had cheesy moments galore.(running in the rain scene, the screaming Ya! at the end, etc). They were funny i guess, but i felt like i was laughing more at the movie than with it. Finally, it seems unrealistic that a group of people trying to get rid of evidence of them bombing a building, would choose blowing it up inside another building. Just doesn't seem like the logical choice, but hey.

I had reasonably high expectations for this movie, as i thought that the plot idea lended itself well to an indepth character study, that not only looked close at the punk movement and anarchism, but dealt with more serious issues of responsibility, loyalty, accepting one's past, and accepting the future etc etc etc in the main characters. What we get instead is a surface level look at characters, in the midst of a poorly executed film, that has a truly interesting core idea.