Review: God Bless America

21st November 2012

By Eva.

Bobcat Goldthwait, an American comedian, who has released many funny stand-up comedy DVDs and was working for Jimmy Kimmel Live, has now done a film that each and every one of us has dreamed about doing at least once in our lifetime. Owning a sportscar that you can drive anywhere with, and shooting everyone who gets on your way and pisses you off.

Joel Murray plays Frank, a depressed man in his forties, who spends his days watching the horrible TV programmes and listening to his loud neighbours. When he finds out he is terminally ill, he decides to teach the TV stars he is repulsed by a final lesson. He takes his gun, steals a sportscar and gets on the road to get rid off of some of the most ungrateful, ignorant, consuming people of our society. On his way he meets a 16-year old Roxy (Tara Lynne Barr) who is excited that somebody finally shares her view of life and is desperate to join him. Together, they will become the 21 century’s Bonny and Clyde – a dangerous pair travelling around the highways of America, showing no mercy to anyone gets on their way.

The casting has been done brilliantly, you can really see the exhaustion and desperation in Joel Murrays face as he is speaking of everything that he considers wrong in this society. Tara Lynne Barr on the other hand gives out the youthful energy and craziness that would otherwise lack in the film.

I wouldn’t say it is the best movie ever made – it doesn’t exactly offer anything new and the twists in the movie are actually quite predictable, but I think that the feeling surrounding the movie is very strong and makes you not even hope for anything big. Watching another pampered idiot that everybody has met at least once in their life being killed in a movie is fun and satisfying enough. The exhaustion, hopelessness, numb indifference feeling is created fully by Joel Murray and he is damn good at delivering it.

Everyone who has ever felt that all the reality and talent TV programmes like „ X-Factor“ , „Jersey Shore“ etc are horrible and have nothing to do with real life or true talent – „ God bless America“ is the movie for you. Anyone who is sick of all the beauty queens and the world’s unwritten rules of how is the best way to be – make sure you check out this film. The movie is a great fun to watch if you don’t mind a little blood and if you are looking for more than just a beautiful face in a movie.

Also, the soundtrack is worth giving another listen as well.

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