Review of Rage

Rage (2006 TV Movie)
1/10
A German version of 'Alpha Dog', as obnoxious and nauseating as the first
3 February 2008
Warning: Spoilers
So,so, after the U.S. on-screen garbage that 'Alpha Dog' was, now comes its German update, with which it shares striking similarities: in the first case, we have this coward degenerate sub-human sissy of 'Johnny Truelove'(what a ridiculous name, is it supposed to be funny?) with his bunch of scumbags, in the second case, we have the coward pusher degenerate sub-human sissy 'Chan' (which is supposed to mean 'soul', oh, what poetry, I'm impressed....)with his own bunch of equally degenerate scumbags. The first one kidnaps and decides to kill in cold blood a 15 year-old boy, because he hasn't got the balls to face kidnapping charges and to face jail, the second one terrorizes another 15 year-old or something beyond exhaustion, and then takes on his family, because he equally has no balls at all to face jail life: it is much easier to take on a harmless kid, especially with your band, than to face men who got, for instance, the balls to rob a bank and face armed cops, isn't it? But the most important point that these Z-graded flicks share, and which is, I think, the most nauseating, is that 'Wut', exactly the same way as 'Alpha Dog', glorifies and describes with a very disgusting complacency, the behaviour of the harasser and his followers, take for instance the numerous scenes (staightforward 'Alpha Dog'ripoff) where the director wants to give the impression that the victim has the 'time of his life' with his torturer, and therefore clearly tries to arouse sympathy for this scumbag of Chan, and suggests that this is an excuse for all the evil he spreads around him. Oh, and on top of that, the stupidity here reaches a peak at the end of the movie, when, after the 'hero' or rather the CRIMINAL, because that's what he (or should I say it) is, has finally gotten what he deserved, we hear this sad music as the credits rolls, which, is I suppose, intended to make us feel sorry to what happened to him? No, I do not buy it, this is totally ludicrous. In short, these two 'filmmakers' are a real shame to cinema because of their one-sided and disgusting position on that subject matter.By the way, I suggest they should team up to direct, let's say 'Johnny Truelove meets Chan'. Oh, sorry, I forgot Chan is dead and Johnny Truelove will probably also be, so it would be difficult, unless they make them meet in the after life...
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