We never get to know what caused the devastating Civil War we are thrown into here, following a group of journalists making their way through the combat zones. What we get to see is a surreal panorama of violence, senselessness and loss of orientation we are used to expect in typical modern war movies.
And technically it's being presented in a way I couldn't complain about.
But Garland uses the real menacing conflict in American Society, the constantly increasing division between two hostile political parties and opinions, fueled by nationalism and anti-democratic populism, only as an associative background, an echo room for a quite challenging, but nevertheless very conventional action thriller.
I was expecting a deeper analysis than his movie offers, and although I found the experience entertaining and partly exciting, it left me disappointed in the end. I had the feeling of a missed chance to deliver something really profound.
And technically it's being presented in a way I couldn't complain about.
But Garland uses the real menacing conflict in American Society, the constantly increasing division between two hostile political parties and opinions, fueled by nationalism and anti-democratic populism, only as an associative background, an echo room for a quite challenging, but nevertheless very conventional action thriller.
I was expecting a deeper analysis than his movie offers, and although I found the experience entertaining and partly exciting, it left me disappointed in the end. I had the feeling of a missed chance to deliver something really profound.
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