Oh, look, it's another absolutely terrible movie with a bunch massively downvoted 10/10 views from accounts that have never reviewed anything but this and the other movie from this same director.
Normally I wouldn't bother to review a waste of time like this but that pisses me off.
How in the world did name actors like Michael Madsen, Judd Breakfast Club Guy and One Of The Other Baldwin Brothers get involved in this nonsense?
A hamfisted attempt at some sort of commentary, using folk music and evoking some poorly-described war, this film attempts to replace plot and substance with intentionally odd, stiffly mannered performances, unexplained weirdness for its own sake, attempts to be evocative with allusions to totalitarianism and resistance (such as firing squad scene) without ever giving us any characters with enough substance to care about, or even any attempt to ever explain why any of it is happening. Characters appear to change motivations and personalities depending on whatever's going on in a particular scene, the movie shifts to "artistic" black and white halfway through for no apparent reason, sixties folk music plays without giving us any reason to care why there's a war (which is declared without ever explaining why) or a resistance-which never explains what they're actually resisting, except "the war", which is as deep and meaningful as this incredibly pointless movie gets. Ok, war is bad. If you don't know how to make art, just say "war is bad" without trying to be an artist.
I'd call it pretentious but it's not skillfully made enough to be pretentious. It's just incompetent.
The special effects and cinematography are fine (ie they look expensive), and I'm still perplexed by how recognizable actors got duped into doing this fourth-rate garbage. I don't understand how this kind of pointless endeavor ever gets funded. I would guess somebody who knows nothing about filmmaking, and no clue that they don't, has a lot of money. Or maybe a blackmail tape of somebody very powerful in Hollywood.
