Andrew Shah writes:
Jammer, Another great review (and I'm not kidding). Given the way you lambasted this flick... calling CD what it really is... a typical, exhausted George W. Rambo-style American anthem...I'm not surprised it finished first at the box office.
Seems ripe, though, for Bud-drinking, Kodiak-dipping, NASCAR watching, Commie (still) hating, U.S. folk who inevitably (yes Billy Bud, 5 syllables) call turbans towels, and yarmulkes beanies.
Average American movie-goers (or, shall we say, simpletons who think a night at the mall don't get no better... 'cept fir Sundays 'cuz the Simpsons is on) (cun ya please pass the moulin rouge?) will certainly slurp this up like a second-fixin' of ultimate fighting.
But for the director's miscue in failing to tag-team the President's National Advisor on Fitness with Jean Claude Van Damme....I'd a been smellin'......Oscar.
Andrew