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The movie has a huge fanbase and all my friends love it. So I finally decided to check it out, and I don't really get all the hype.
The movie is very good at humor, it made me laugh a lot. But I felt that the serious storyline, just didn't work for me, and was too over the top to be taken seriously. The best example being the ending.
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In the end the saints walk into a public courtroom, announce to everyone who they are and what they represent, and then execute the man on trial. Then leave. Then the movie ends with some serous social commentary over the credits.
But this ending cannot be taken seriously at all, cause the saints just showed their faces in a public courtroom committing murder in front of dozens of witness, and on camera!
So they are now on America's most wanted, and are now fugitives, making them very powerless on being effective vigilante's. How are we suppose to believe these two are so effective, when they just dug their own graves?
I also feel that the movie overstates how bad crime really is, in America. Sure there is a lot of it, but a lot of criminals in gangs have been successfully prosecuted and the system seems to work overall fairly well, when it comes to prosecuting murderers. Sure we are outraged when they are found not guilty, but there are more guilty verdicts than acquittals, so I don't see how the audience can agree with the philosophy that the court system is incompetent, like the movie keeps trying to hammer us over the head with.
Maybe if the movie was set in Colombia or something, but they chose to set it in U.S. and so the extreme philosophy just doesn't work so well.
But even if it did, I still feel the story goes too over the top, and the cops are just too unbelievably incompetent, for the movie to be necessarily good.
It's an angsty, very 1990s movie, clearly inspired by the independent boom led by Tarantino and Smith, with a little bit of Hong Kong action thrown in. By some odd coincidence, there were several movies released in 1999 which shared the basic theme of "thinking outside the box," and aspiring to be something greater than your comfortably mundane life.
There's nothing good about it - it mistakes posing & attitude for plot & characterization. It defines shallow junk trying to impress but it's just pretentious & faddish.
Well I saw the documentary on the making of the movie, Overnight (2003), and in that documentary they talk about how it was the hottest script in Hollywood back in 1997, if I remember correct, and I am really surprised that this was the hottest script in Hollywood at the time.
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