Social Commentary


This movie is absolute garbage garnished with some bullsh** social commentary. When the Sean Bean character encounters the African-American couple and starts spouting the ultimate cracker b.s., I knew then the movie was not written for my enjoyment. Tell the families of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Renisha McBride, Eric Garner, etc. that people in general aren't afraid of black people because they are black. Then the anti-female speech he gave the wife about feeling like she is exempt from robbing because she is a woman. It isn't in our innate nature, for the most part, to do things like that. So we're not thinking we are exempt because we are women but because armed robbery is really not suited to our nature. There are women that can commit armed robbery with the best of them but for the most part, no. Then the not-so-grand statement made when the Sean Bean character refused the wife's advances. Oh, yes, he is the ultimate criminal and man because he turned down sex. Women have no power if there is no appetite for what is between their legs. Please spare me. One of the worst movies ever.

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The berating of Glenn Plummer let me know this movie was worthless garbage immediately. But it also made me think about how Glenn seems to constantly choose pathetic roles like this - Showgirls, Thursday, Strange Days, Speed. Everything I've seen him in he was some creep or loser or coward or blowhard who gets killed or demeaned by white people. It makes me wonder if he's just not very bright or trying to make a commentary on how Hollywood stereotypes black people by choosing the weakest and most pathetic roles he sees. Maybe some of his movies I haven't seen defy this pattern?

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