Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of American culture, which he sees as overrun with cruelty, stupidity and intolerance. Divorced, recently fired, and possibly terminally ill, Frank truly has nothing left to live for. But instead of taking his own life, he buys a gun and decides to take out his frustration on the cruellest, stupidest, most intolerant people he can imagine—starting with some particularly odious reality television stars. Frank finds an unusual accomplice in a high-school student named Roxy, who shares his sense of rage and together they embark on a nation-wide assault on America’s dumbest, most irritating celebrities.
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Watch it.
Watch it and feel attacked you dim-witted consumer.
T**Y
Some People Deserve To Die - Fact!
This brilliant film is in the `Falling Down' genre, but is all about modern America or more correctly society and how it has gone south in the being nice and decent department. Frank has landed in middle age, he is divorced, has a daughter who would have been great in `The Exorcist', without coaching, neighbours that have taken `red neck' and made it their own, a job he gets fired from and his doctor has just told him he is going to die.As he contemplates not wanting to live he gets pushed over the edge by a reality TV show where a spoilt rich girl gets to be on prime time just because she is rich, pretty and a total biatch. So he drives down to where she is for some not so random justice. That is where he meets Roxy (Tara Lynne Barr) and she wants to join him in killing as many people as they can who, quite simply, deserve to die. When you start to think of the categories of people that fit into that, not so exclusive `death list, it actually become a big job. Frank is just tired of reality television, selfish, rude people, the right wing single issue politics and pure toxicity of the moronic pop culture that is ruling and ruining the world, and God bless him for that. She hates high fives, racists, homophobes and religious bigots, plus a few more that she can enunciate with the language of a street walker - brilliant.This is funny, intelligent, well acted and just a great ride. Joel Murray (`The Artist') is outstanding as Frank, the reluctant gun wielding guy, just asking people to be nice to each other. The soundtrack is great too with a lot of original material for the film, and it all hangs together brilliantly. Check out the end credits too where we have a credit to `Boy who gets shot in movie theatre # 2' and `Pancake eating pedophile' (sic), if that don't prove what a messed up work of genius this is, then I think nothing will.There is gore, there is swearing, there are serious issues and there is wanton murder, so if any of that floats your boat, then you should get yourself a copy of this superb film. Highly recommended.
T**S
Living Vicariously
I was surprised to find most of the reviews of the film were positive. With all the debate about American Gun Culture I expected it to be widely condemned for showing what happens when "All the nuts have guns".The fact it has been so well received is probably a reflection on the fact that the chances of your life being made a misery by the targets of the spree are higher than your chances of getting shot by a nut. Who among us wouldn't like to be the one who shot the selfish and ignorant lout who took up the last 2 spaces in the car park?The film builds up sympathy for our "hero" who would rather leave the world than put up with nasty and moronic modern culture any longer and might have done so after his first killing if he hadn't gained a sidekick. Hard to know whether to laugh at Tara-Lynn Barr's character or be terrified of her. A nicely deranged performance from an actress I'd never seen before but will look out for in future. I don't think she was much older than the character when it was filmed but the character shows the right mix of youthful appearance with an attitude almost as mature and jaded as her new partner in crime. It's important to show our hero is moral and strong-willed enough not to be tempted by a teenager and to know it's wrong when others remind him that lesser men might take advantage.So he's the man we'd all like to be and he's joyfully taking out the sort of people we hate. Once he gets started on his crusade we can just sit back and enjoy the ride and since it's currently free on Amazon Prime video I've dipped back into it a few times since I watched it to revisit my favourite scenes.
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Hashtags at dawn
A middle aged man irritated by modern America goes on a killing spree with a foul mouthed 16yr old girl he randomly meets, after he loses his job and is diagnosed as having a brain tumour.Mostly his violence and vitriol is aimed at reality TV, hate mongers, selfish people, irritating people found in cinemas and people who hi-five in public..Generally satirical, GBA is mostly a comedy with occasional bursts of bloody violence. If you take it for what it is then it's plenty of fun, sure it gets a bit ranty and runs out of steam on the way to it's inevitably nihilistic finale, but if you just go along for the ride it's enjoyable enough.I thought it was a bit like Super crossed with... oh I dunno, Badlands?!Perfect for people who think a lot of modern culture and media type stuff (Reality TV, celebrity etc) is the spawn of the devil.I was very disappointed that they didn't kill people for making 'Hand Hearts'.. This particularly annoys me, and when I buy my AK47 from Easy Andy those people will be the first against the wall come the revolution.The UK dvd print is as one would expect for a modern picture. Bare bones disc though.4/5
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