Simply Perfect

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Not only badly acted and directed (how much time can be devoted to looking at one man looking pensive? A lot, it seems) but utterly irresponsible in messaging. It is not ok to go and kill a building full of people, just because you think some of them screwed you. Totally, completely and reprehensibly tone deaf to the problems of suicide, health care, gun violence and inequity...

You wonder why you never heard about this movie before? You wonder why there are no "huge" stars featured in this movie? You wonder why there's not a "huge" studio backing this movie? You wonder about the miserable critics - e.g. in newspapers - on this movie?This movie is not about the craftsmanship of filmmaking or storytelling, it's not about neat special effects or entertaining jokes. It's about completely everything of yesterday, today and tomorrow of everybody. There is one central question asked in this film: Why are/have there not been more people supporting Occupy Wall Street or at least their message?And here's what i guess why: A lot of you still believe in the so called 'american dream', where everybody could become everything if he only would work hard enough. That's why so many people are defending the plutocratic system that's oppressing the 99.99% of the world and especially the U.S. They are convinced there will come the day, when they will be part of the beneficiaries of this system.Spoiler: They won't. Ever. No matter what they try.Watch the movie, get incredibly emotional and think what you want about the ending - but much more important: Think about what's happening with us.

I expected this to be a pure action movie of the revenge against the 2008 crisis, which as we know now, has been premeditated by the clever heads at Wall-street and any other bank business centers like London and Luxembourg. I know some old guys who really were at the roots of the system, and who warned me some time before, who told me they were putting their "savings" into security (meaning gold). I also know the other side of the system, when each domino falls, piece by piece, until you have nothing to loose, not even your health. This is the main part of the movie, and it does excellent in it, always at the edge of "too much of bad luck" without falling off.The end may be a bit "lucky", but then it's purpose is purely symbolic. At the end of justice there will always be the citizens.The last words are great : I am out there, a soldier of the people... and if the government, the prosecutors and the judges fail on their duty, I will not fail on mine.

The story real betrays the implicit promise on the title and the posters. The movie is also wrongly billed as action first instead of drama considering the heavier drama content it has. The movie takes too much time to build its main character's cause on executing the things he do on the second act. Having Dominic Purcell on a heavy drama environment for more than hour sure is a bad ingredient to a movie, especially when, like this movie, it postpones the major conflict to the very end but only takes a smaller time in reality. Purcell's ability to depict the thriller side of nerve wars is quite commendable, but the more emotional sides of the drama find his expressions very lacking instead.