Uwe Boll takes a high school massacre plot in HEART OF AMERICA, one of his more mainstream productions that reveals the director's preoccupation with real-life shootings and rampages of destruction. It's an interesting and powerful subject matter for sure, but never so in this director's hands. This is a tedious dialogue-fuelled drama that only really gets going right at the climax. Until then we get long drawn-out scenes mixed and cut together with lots of black and white flashbacks. One sub-plot involves two characters talking in a car for an hour while another couple walk down a street for an hour. It's laboriously done and the only real interest comes from the usual star-studded casting: Jurgen Prochnow, Michael Pare and future TV great Elisabeth Moss all show up in support.
Review of Heart of America
Heart of America
(2002)
A strong subject matter, but not in Boll's hands...
3 December 2020
Warning: Spoilers