Cheap It's the Rage (DVD) (Joan Allen, Jeff Daniels, Robert Forster, Andre Braugher, Bokeem Woodbine, Anna Paquin, Wayne Morse (II), David Schwimmer, Josh Brolin, Gary Sinise) (James D. Stern) Price

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The script deals with many people that by many different reasons have acquired a revolver. They seem to be conected to each other somehow, even though they don't know it. It is an altman-esque movie added guns. This film could have meant for Guns what "Traffic" has for Drugs. But a good cast does not compensate a clichê hidden script.

Instead of working on a new vision of the endemic problem of guns, the scriptwriter prefered to used some of the very old clichêd ideas along with some new ones. Once more, films and TV are pointed as the cause of violence and alienation. One of the characters works in a videoshop and we can see displayed everywhere posters of "Resevoir Dogs", "Pulp Fiction", Natural Born Killers", in another scene there is a TV on showing a scene from "Scream". To make things worse, the director really believes this is one of the main reasons of violence, as he shows in his movie.

A very modern idea --which already became a clichê -- used in this film as a cause of violence is tecnology and information. One character is a very rich man who has made fortune with virtual business and he doesn't leave his house for years, or even get in touch with another human being but his assistant. Of course, he is crazy and he has gun that will be used sooner or later. Then again, this idea doesn't work here, the character is silly.

The cast has ups and downs. Joan Allen, Jeff Daniels and Gary Sinise are very effective, despite the limitations of their characters. But David Schwimmer and Anna Paquin are embarassing, and they add much more preconceived ideas to their characters than the script'd already done. He plays a gay who is suspicious of his partner infidelity and she is a street girl, who stealls shops and has sex for money, despite saying all the time she is not a prostitute -- but this is not really the character's problem. She looks bored most scenes she is in. By the way, this girl was a promise when she made "The Piano", but after that she hasn't proved to be a good actress yet.

This film may have a good idea lost here and there, but as a whole it sinks. It has a promising beginning that loses its ton a couple of minutes later. It seems to me that the filmmakers wanted with this movie is to show how ironic life can be, but it didn't work. The ending sequence and some explanatory cards in the end try to be ironic, but as a matter of fact, they are involutarily funny. Anyway, some people may think this film to be worthy watching once it tackles moral an conteporany issues, although its perspective is very mistaken.

Andersonesque view on nine people and how rage changes them.
Nine people are somehow brought together by rage. Whether they are victims or the cause of rage, all of their lives are deeply touched by it. The way all of the characters can connect is very similar to Boogie Night's writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson's style of filmmaking. Even though the movie's classified as a drama, it is quite humorous. James D. Stern has made the sad events in the film seem hilarious. Much like Welcome To The Dollhouse and Happiness's writer/director Todd Solondz, Stern has glorified depression. Whether the characters are having ethical problems or they're just plain nuts, we find ourselves chuckling at their misfortune. The "moral" of the movie, being that guns are bad, sucessfully comes across without being preachy. So overall, this movie is excellent. It's honestly one of the best movies I've seen in a long time.

GREAT Performances by all the cast & director but NO Message
This movie ain't that bad as portrayed by the amazon reviwers on this site. I thought all the actors were superb. The shoplifter from X Men showed another dimension I never knew she had. All in all every actor was solid here and I adored them all.

The film, what with being coined as an anti-gun satire or commentary didn't really hit a chord with this viewer. But never the less it did have a strong plot.

I patcularly liked Gary Sinies's character complaining about a common problem in todays society - too much information. Also the special effects in his billionaires house's many TV Screens were great and hi-tech.

There was a couple of times I laughed during this movie btw.