Stars: 3 / 10
Alternating between the extremes of boredom and glorified,
gratuitous violence, this over-praised white power pukefest had its
fate sealed by waaaay too many long-winded racial hate speeches (not at
all entertaining to sit through), slow-motion overkill (what is this?
VH1?), Furlong's squeaky narration (like nails on a chalkboard) and the
occasional outbursts of ridiculously dramatic music (... they're just
playing basketball. Seriously, settle down.) So much hype, so little to
like.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120586/?ref_=sr_1
Director: Tony Kaye
Year: 1998
Main Cast: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo
Extended Review:
Neo-nazi's are crazy, scary, and mean. Duh. While this film tries to
make some good points: "skinheads are bad and wrong", "racism is bad and wrong", it actually spends an enormous
amount of time presenting the audience with a barrage of rabid white
power hate speeches, physical violence against immigrants and
minorities, and slow-mo
glorification of a really hot, half naked nazi on a killing rampage...
American History X
preaches to the choir, and in my opinion, only serves to inflame viewers
who might already have white supremacists ideology. This means that this
film is fairly pointless, since the choir already knows the song:
"Racism is evil"... and "Edward Norton is totally ripped!"
Although
Norton's performance was amazing, as promised, he really does come off
as crazy, scary, and mean, the scales are balanced by the incredibly
disappointing performances from veterans Gould and D'Angelo. Whenever
they had dialouge together, I was wincing and just hoping for the pain
to go away. And oh look, it's "Nancy" from The Craft... and yeah, she's
still battshit crazy.
A personal nod for Avery
Brooks AND Jennifer Lien (happy Trekkie moment!) which, other than
Edward Norton's beefcake, were the only things I really found likable
about this movie.
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