Review of Bad Axe

Bad Axe (2022)
5/10
Portrait of a democrat voting family during corona
27 January 2023
Personal portrait of a family during Corona lockdown. Filmed by one of the family members himself, who thought it would be a good idea to record this Corona lockdown period for the future.

It does give a nice insight into the family bonds. It's a loving family for sure, who basically are the embodiment of the American dream. The father came with nothing to America and in the end has a succesful restaurant in a little town called Bad Axe.

The problem with this movie is that it veers into American politics halfway through and only shows the democrat political viewpoint that all Trump voters are racists (or worse).

This immigrant family didnt experience any vicious racism in this little town themselves by the way. The worst that happened to them was that there were some customers stopping from visiting their restaurant because they were anti Trump and because they had put their anti Trump views online for all to see.

I expected a lot more fireworks, based on the short trailer, but all I got to see was a succesful immigrant family complaining that Trump was president and in the end was cheering that fortunately Biden was now their president.

Still a nice personal portrait of an immigrant family in a small American town, but without any real spark or punch and a bit long in the tooth...
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