While many may welcome watching Russell Crowe misplace his marbles and embark on a people pummeling spree across Louisiana, one would hope such a concept is crafted with at least a dash of decorum. Sadly, Unhinged is a painfully inept and wonky display of unjustifiably wanton ultra-violence, clunky gaucheness with an awkwardly unfocused message about inner city mental health, buried beneath the bunkum.
The opening credit sequence suggests we’re in a time tinkering on civil unrest with people cracking under the weight of societal/psychological pressures, but its pertinence is lost amongst contrivances, defects and ridiculous set-pieces.
Crowe’s pill-popping, booze/person slugging psychotic “Tom Cooper” (Tommy Cooper would’ve been better) wanes from moderate miff into raging maniac pushed by society and circumstance into psychosis, with hammer and petrol canister. Cooper erupts like a Krakatoa of testosterone at single mother/hair stylist Rachel (Caren Pistorius) mid traffic while...
The opening credit sequence suggests we’re in a time tinkering on civil unrest with people cracking under the weight of societal/psychological pressures, but its pertinence is lost amongst contrivances, defects and ridiculous set-pieces.
Crowe’s pill-popping, booze/person slugging psychotic “Tom Cooper” (Tommy Cooper would’ve been better) wanes from moderate miff into raging maniac pushed by society and circumstance into psychosis, with hammer and petrol canister. Cooper erupts like a Krakatoa of testosterone at single mother/hair stylist Rachel (Caren Pistorius) mid traffic while...
- 7/30/2020
- by Daniel Goodwin
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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