Title: Maybe I Missed Something
Product review: Mtv style camerawork, excessive unnessary violence(coming from a die hard horror fan and a Clockwork Orange lover), and choppy storytelling bog this one down. Oliver Stone has done great films such as Platoon and Born on the 4th of July. He has made good films like The Doors and U-Turn, and then he has done misfires where he doesn't seem to be able to keep his focus, and this movie is a prime example. What was intended as a scathing commentary about the media glamorizing violence in itself ends up two things, glorifying it itself and a self parody. It is really a shame the performances in this film are brilliant, Woody Harrelson is the stand out, but Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Downy Jr. are really good as well. Perhaps if Stone hadn't just gone wild and spun the camera around, maybe he wouldn't have gotten so dizzy and lost direction.
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