As a responsible gun owner, this movie scares the crap out of me. This movie contains every stereotype i've ever heard regarding guns: The only black people in the movie are gang members. Every gun owner is either an anti-government conspiracy theorist, a redneck gun freak, or someone with low self esteem who buys a gun to feel like a man. There are no references to responsible gun ownership. No rules of gun safety are followed or even mentioned. Even the commentary of crew gun stories abound with anti-gun stories. Lots of stories about how they killed birds and how bad hey felt and how bad guns are.
The underlying theme of this movie seems to be that guns are bad and the only purposes they have are to kill or to make someone feel tougher. There is one quote in one of the commentaries that claims that England has a much lower murder rate than the U.S. because they don't have guns. Which is wrong, and if they'd bothered to do the research they'd have known that. The director admits that one of the purposes of the movie is to call attention to the gun issue. The produce claims that pro-gun people will like the movie because it reinforces their views and that anti-gun people will like the movie because it reinforces THEIR views. One of the actors says he likes the "neutrality" of the movie? Come on.
Even if you take the gun debate out of the movie. It's a B-movie. The characters put too much faith in each other. The bounty hunters are portrayed as vigilanties. The conspiracy theorists seem to have just walked out of a Michael Moore movie (Don't get me started). The actors seemed to be uncomfortable on the set. The low budget is evident in every aspect of the movie.
My recommendation would be to leave this movie on the shelf. Spend your five bucks on something from Disney.
The underlying theme of this movie seems to be that guns are bad and the only purposes they have are to kill or to make someone feel tougher. There is one quote in one of the commentaries that claims that England has a much lower murder rate than the U.S. because they don't have guns. Which is wrong, and if they'd bothered to do the research they'd have known that. The director admits that one of the purposes of the movie is to call attention to the gun issue. The produce claims that pro-gun people will like the movie because it reinforces their views and that anti-gun people will like the movie because it reinforces THEIR views. One of the actors says he likes the "neutrality" of the movie? Come on.
Even if you take the gun debate out of the movie. It's a B-movie. The characters put too much faith in each other. The bounty hunters are portrayed as vigilanties. The conspiracy theorists seem to have just walked out of a Michael Moore movie (Don't get me started). The actors seemed to be uncomfortable on the set. The low budget is evident in every aspect of the movie.
My recommendation would be to leave this movie on the shelf. Spend your five bucks on something from Disney.
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