Sneak Preview night again - cheap tickets, surprise film. As we took to our seats, my heart sank. The first words that came up on the screen were 'Sean' and 'Penn'. He's producer and co-writer of this master-flop.
The Gunman has zoomed in to my top five list of Worst Films Ever. It doesn't help that I find action films inane and moronic - the combat equivalent of hard core porn. On top of all that, though, comes the quality of plot, script and acting you'd associate with the most ham-fisted soap opera. Still, it wasn't a bad night - we laughed our asses off and stayed until the end, because who would watch a speeding car heading towards a precipice and then turn away at the last minute?
So, in a sense, highly recommended, especially if you hate Sean Penn and need some new material to slag him off.
There's a political message that's so ham-fisted (delivered by a newsreader in the film's final line) that you can only imagine Penn thinks like this: "I've got something to say about the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. So I'll make a crappy, crass action movie to raise the political consciousness of the kind of meat-headed fuckwit who would go and watch a crappy, crass action movie, but who doesn't know or care about what or where the Democratic republic of Congo is." The self-defeating vanity of Hollywood, in action.
The Gunman has zoomed in to my top five list of Worst Films Ever. It doesn't help that I find action films inane and moronic - the combat equivalent of hard core porn. On top of all that, though, comes the quality of plot, script and acting you'd associate with the most ham-fisted soap opera. Still, it wasn't a bad night - we laughed our asses off and stayed until the end, because who would watch a speeding car heading towards a precipice and then turn away at the last minute?
So, in a sense, highly recommended, especially if you hate Sean Penn and need some new material to slag him off.
There's a political message that's so ham-fisted (delivered by a newsreader in the film's final line) that you can only imagine Penn thinks like this: "I've got something to say about the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. So I'll make a crappy, crass action movie to raise the political consciousness of the kind of meat-headed fuckwit who would go and watch a crappy, crass action movie, but who doesn't know or care about what or where the Democratic republic of Congo is." The self-defeating vanity of Hollywood, in action.
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