In theory this could be read as a metaphor of anger in American politics, its consequences and how to deal with it. In practice I wasn't able to read it as such at all.
At some point I think the goal of the script was to include as many bad clichés, cants and stereotypes on all levels as possible. In that it is very successful one has to it without envy.
Bonus point for an extra remarkably bad music score. No wonder they gonna replace all our jobs with AI, it can impossibly be more meaningless.
Was very sick when I watched this and in need for a no-brain-adventure-movie. And also I keep watching the Ritchie-movies, even though the last one I half-liked was Snatch. But it's still a smalltalk topic coming up from time to time. And maybe the first two third of this I liked best since Snatch. The pace is good, there's a lot of traveling and running around. As soon as they arrive in Egypt the movie turns to absolute shit, but…
I don't know any director, whose movie has connected as many people as I know have been connected through Zulawskis films.
On the night before I watched this, I had finally started to face the fact that Zulawski had died, by reading a obituary, which described memories connected with Zulawski-movies. I couldn't sleep all night, couldn't watch the 7-hour-Diaz-movie I had planned to watch on that they, felt remorse about my own decisions in life, not having taken extreme enough…
