It's no Matrix but it's definitely a philosophical action film. Not sure why the female lead had to die (is this a quotation of Antonioni's L'Avventura?). What makes this film interesting is obviously what makes real Westerns captivating: an exploration of the role of the outlaw in society. The joker is an anarchist who cannot be reasoned with and knows it...Batman is a moralist who won't kill recklessly. Unlike the great Westerns, though, this film is tinged with piercing Bush-era questions about whether, in extraordinary circumstances, it can be worth compromising the moral integrity of a state in order to stabilize it.
As philosophical film it's certainly lacking, especially when the plot wears thin: humanity's nobility is demonstrated by two boats worth of people unwilling to blow the other boat up to save their own? Come on.
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