I know we can blame the production code for this tame offering, but this has to be one of the biggest false advertisement in title name. There's a few scenes of fist fights and a scene of supposed beatdown (only shadows are shown). That's all. The biggest problem, though, is the unecessarily ambitious theme of political corruption and undercover investigation. The script was already a mess trying to cover that all, then it added amnesia! I later commented to a friend in attendance that it reminded me of the episode of Futurama where everyone around Calculon was having amnesia. Of course, then I realized that it's a movie like this where Futurama got the idea in the first place. Damn I love that show (the feature movies, not so much).
May 20, 2009
#179: Violence (1947)
I know we can blame the production code for this tame offering, but this has to be one of the biggest false advertisement in title name. There's a few scenes of fist fights and a scene of supposed beatdown (only shadows are shown). That's all. The biggest problem, though, is the unecessarily ambitious theme of political corruption and undercover investigation. The script was already a mess trying to cover that all, then it added amnesia! I later commented to a friend in attendance that it reminded me of the episode of Futurama where everyone around Calculon was having amnesia. Of course, then I realized that it's a movie like this where Futurama got the idea in the first place. Damn I love that show (the feature movies, not so much).
