Oh look! Another film knocking the British and portraying us as the baddies, wanting to take over the world with our imperialism, and not giving a jot for whoever gets in the way, blah blah blah, yawn, it's all getting rather boring now Hollywood.
A pretty shitty film, mediocre at best.
Deckard B26354, I'm filed and monitored
Who the hell hates the British in 2020? This isnt the 18th century. Sounds like someone is a bit insecure.
shareBritish people are frequently villains, even amidst otherwise American casts.
Die Hard has Hans Gruber. It's in America. All the people in the plaza are Americans. The villain is named Hans Gruber - distinctly German (who also "get" to be villains a lot), yet he has a British accent.
Lion King: Scar is the evilest lion and has the British-est accent.
Star Wars: okay, Darth Vader has an American accent, and Obi-Wan is British, but every higher-up in the Empire has a British accent. Tarkin was, arguably, the "big bad guy" in the first film and he's British. So is the Emperor.
Or, you get movies where the British people make sense in the context of the film, but are then portrayed as really awful and barbarous. Movies like The Patriot where it isn't enough to show the British people as opposed to the colonists ideologically, they have to be shown as brutal, inhuman monsters. Meanwhile, please note the white, Southern land-owner who has freed his slaves... He is THE PATRIOT! Or consider Braveheart where the Scots now chant FREEDOM With the same tone as "U-S-A! U-S-A!" and the British people get to be evil monsters again.
It's a very, very frequent trend in American movies to have the British be the baddies. Something about the accent? Or leftover hostility from the Revolutionary War?
British make excellent baddies guess i shouldnt suggest Deadpool(2016)
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