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...attracting copious numbers of women. His partner in crime is his physics tutor Justin Pendleton (Michael Pitt II). Justin is a classic quiet kid, skilled on a computer but is not especially outgoing or friendly. It is his deranged philosophy that embraces crime and suicide that ultimately drives the film??€™s plot...
After seeing this film, however, one might ask for more art and less matter, since every moment is saturated with political overtones. Many of the film??€™s statements are melodramatic and obvious, like Bullock’s fight against a male-dominated system. The constant suggestion that the death penalty acts not as a deterrent to crime but as an incentive for criminals to confess is tasteless and unsupported, yet quietly backs up the film??€™s saccharine attempts to be a crowd-pleaser...
...Scorpion King’s expected high voltage action begins with the film??€™s very first scene, when the close-up face of a barbaric, toothless man is suddenly whipped from the screen by a flying projectile, a presumably sharp and heavy object that kills him. Happily, projectiles are a motif through the movie, as The Rock and his buddies kill dozens upon dozens of baddies with increasing creativity...
...arrive as neatly wrapped as Jake Ryan.We can see more clearly Jake’s struggle not to be tied down to the older, more womanly Caroline, who might have possibly wanted marriage. Marriage is in fact one of the biggest jokes in the whole movie. In the film??€™s beguiling worldview, young infatuation is pure and real, unsullied by the nuptial-obsession of elders (Caroline, Sam’s family). We can appreciate Ringwald’s youthful charm and honesty anew, and see how she stands head-and-shoulders above the curent crop of teen movie...
...involving public displays of underwear no less!—but she still got her man in the end. The film gives fumbling teenagers a false sense of security, implying that despite the cattiness and embarassments of high school, there is true love out there. Figuring out that the film??€™s happy ending is as much a Hollywood fantasy as the rest of the movie wasn’t is a bitter pill to swallow...