MongoLloyd

This is one of those movies you can watch a hundred times and still get a kick out of it each time. In a perfect world, we'd have more movies like this. The cast is amazing, the direction is inspired, and the score is perfect.

My only issue is with the ending, which is one of two endings that they shot, that the test audiences preferred, apparently. I don't know where they test screened this to end up with THAT ending, but I'm assuming it was East Stupidsville.

Anyone who loves this like I do should seek out a version with the alternate ending. It is far superior to the official release ending. You won't be sorry.

This has a very nice cast and a great underdog premise, but feels a bit over the top with cheap emotional manipulation that detracts from what could have been an epic cinematic achievement.

It really started feeling forced after the halfway point with more and more implausibilities that just shook me out of the story.

The mark of a weak writer is melodrama and excessive salacious story elements, but then it could just be the producers that dictated the addition of the nonsensical scenarios that just had no basis in the reality they established.

The production value is there, the cast is there, the soundtrack is there, but then they had to trot out as many tropes as possible, and by then, the weak resolution is just background noise.