Amusing satire, if only people realised how much of this is actually true.

This actually has a few really good dramatic scenes, it's a shame its surrounded by completely humourless comedy. and bludgoning "satire". Btw, when is this supposed to be set? Half the references are contemporary which makes NO sense

I like John Cusack but this movie was a huge letdown. Their attempt at satire felt really forced and they went for all of the obvious jokes. I think this would have worked well if it had been more subtle and didn't try so hard to be funny. If you want to watch a great movie with Cusack as an assassin watch Grosse Point Blank instead.

One of the worst John Cusack movies.But he saves the movie again.he also co-writed that movies story

I like Cusack and Tomei and some of the others but my god this was bad.

This kind of shallow satire is not amusing at all.

Am I the only one to think that this is one of the most underrated gems of today´s cinema?...

This movie has many similarities with Grosse Point Blank. Although this movie is inferior it still has a lot of enjoyable moments and laughs. The Cusacks, Tomei and Duff are all great in their roles. Overall this is a good satire.

"Even less funny than Southland Tales and not nearly as adventurous." - Bill Weber

What the FUCK is this film about? God dammit who gave John Cusack a typewriter? Hilary Duff plays a character called "Yonica Babyyeah" for fucks sake. There's even a scene where John walks into a fast food joint and everyone starts yelling at eachother while standing still and then they all jog into the freezer. God dammit. Fuck everything to do with this ridiculous failure of a "political satire" that rapes the Grosse Pointe Blank universe. No.2 on my "Films I wish I could un-see" list.

This non-nihilistic film is a vision of our political complicity and humane potential.

a political satire with a feel-good ending, who would have thought of that? the movie has a good first 30 min and last 30 min, but the middle is dry and uneventful. it has very little humor actually, but always has a manner of light-heartedness. it would have been much better if the weird satirical wackiness was more prevailant.

One of the most boring and unwatchable movies I had to force myself to sit through. Even strong coffee couldn't keep me from yawning every two minutes.

Disappointing. It tries to be funny. It is not. It tries to be satirical. It falls flat. It tries to be quirky. It lost me. It tries to be fresh. I guessed the plotline 1/3 way through. Sorry.

Cusack is as good as always but the satire is a bit over the top and never really hits the target.

Concentrates on totally wrong things. Also it's not funny at all.

Did this glueless slapstick humour go anywhere? I'd got porblem to tolerate it till the end... All points for a good choreographed John Cusack fighting scene somewhere in the middle of the movie.

not funny, not even entertaining, more like 93% boring/stupid/senseless and the 7% rest is marisa tomei

Political satire doesn't really cover it -- how about "politically charged mind-f**ck"? Does that explain it? Perhaps they should have spent less time on "political" and "satire" and more one "interesting" and "watchable."

It tries to be witty and satirical, but ultimately its targets have already been better dealt with elsewhere. The result is a listless, spineless, humourless, lifeless movie that really doesn't hold up to any kind of watching on any sort of level whatsoever. If nothing else, it's a blight on John Cusack's generally amazing career.

Bullshit

Successor to Grosse Point Blank my ass. This film fails at the political satire it tries to pass itself off as. The shitty thing is, Cusack still kicks ass in the film, but none of the other actors can pull their weight, from a lackluster Tomei, to an awkward Duff, to about the worst performance I've seen from big sis Cusack (probably the shitty character design). The film can't decide rather it wants to be over the top or not. And it started so well....

The concept was good, but the execution was poor. A farcical attempt to portray the military-industrial complex in the near future.

I don't know what to say: but, for an Indie-like, anti-war, drama/comedy, watch this film!

Meh. I like John Cusack and I like satire but this just didn't do it for me. Satire doesn't have to be funny but this was obviously trying to be and I only laughed twice. It gets props for being relevant, by showcasing the corporatization of things, mainly war. The plot was really predictable in a lot of ways, though. Didn't really keep me into it like it should have. The action scenes weren't too bad and they had some pretty nice choreography. It needed to try harder.

Not as smart as it thinks it is.

Disappointing and heavy handed.

Love Marisa Tomei!

Dull and bizarrely over-the-top action/war/satire from John Cusack. The swipe at the the military industrial complex feels about three years too late.

Pretentious, pseudo intellectual bs.

A wonderfully intelligent combination of political satire and social commentary. There's violence, action, comedy, and drama all rolled into one, with a pretty easy to follow yet predictable plot line. People who don't like it, just don't get and/or are republicans/sheep.

the start of the movie when he kills that men in the bar was good but the rest was bad.