All the Rage

this film is different as a score of people discover things about themselves and others that they didn't know and how to use a gun.

at first i must admit it was a slow flick, but i like these movies where the point of view changes from one character to another with their own little side stories, only to find that they are all really connected.

this is a fun movie that deals with the reality of guns in the united states and how harmful they can be in the wrong hands. a terrific message put to use in a very strange story...i give it two thumbs up in the origionality department and another two thumbs up for anna paquin, who goes from the silent and scared ROGUE in the X-MEN movie, to a trashy whore who just happens to be underage and loving it.

"...Rage" focuses on a motley bunch of underdeveloped and loosely interconnected characters who have a common denominator: The hand gun. A marginally entertaining film at best, the flick seems to be trying to make some sort of statement about hand guns. However, it's not likely that a film which can't deliver quality entertainment can deliver meaningful social commentary. "...Rage" is not to be taken seriously on any level if taken at all.

This is another attempt by Hollywood to get the general public

incensed against guns. When the truth be known, Hollywood

wouldn't have a thing to write about and make movies about if it

weren't for guns. Take a moment and think about the movies you

have seen lately and long ago. Guns, Guns, and more guns. You

can count on one hand the 'driving miss daisy' type movies that

have come out of Hollywood. In this movie they don't want you to

pay attention to the lack of morals demonstrated by almost all of

the characters. Just think about the guns. The story was

interesting with the interplay of how the characters were at one

time or other involved with one another.The last good movie I saw

was 'Secondhand Lions'.

"It's the Rage" is actually the title of this movie, which I saw the other night on cable, and it's an odd duck of a film, starting out with Jeff Daniels' character shooting a man in his living room. He explains to his horrified wife (Joan Allen) that the man was a burglar, but she discovers, with even more horror, that it's actually her husband's business partner. What the @#^k??! Then, some other characters are introduced, each one crazier than the other (played by Gary Sinese, Robert Forster, Anna Paquin, Giovanni Ribisi, all great). Then, the characters start interacting, in extremely clever, well-written ways. The one thing that unites these loonies is that they're all on the edge and they all have guns. (Is that two things?) Consider the possibilities. Or better yet, see the film.

Aside from the fact that this movie was obviously gun control propaganda, you just don't care about any of the characters. By the time I got to the end of the movie, I was wishing one of these pathetic characters would just go postal and shoot everyone to put me out of my misery. I can deal with propaganda in the name of good theater, but this is far from it. Prepare to snooze!!