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www.eonline.com - : Everyone's trigger-happy in this tale of desperate urbanites loosely linked by violence and gunplay. But when the smoke clears, you'll wish the comedy had been more on the mark and the dramatic situations as loaded as those ever-present pistols. The film provides challenges for the cast, as Paquin (The Piano) sheds her child-star wings for a tough, streetwise persona. Unfortunately, some characters feel like they've wandered in from another film (Sinise plays a cartoonish, paranoid computer mogul). Others are as sketchy as chalk body-outlines. Only Allen, as the ex-wife of a murderous businessman, shines through all the inconsistency with grace and subtle humor. The multiple storylines eventually lock into a violent climax, but by that point Rage has been shooting blanks too long for us to care. more...
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www.filmcritic.com - : Quite a cast has been assembled for this Altman-esque tale of interlocked lives, all clamoring around the ''serious social problem'' of gun control. While there's no denying that the USA has over fifty million gun owners and it's a subject worthy of address and debate, this movie thuddingly hits the same numb point over and over again: guns are bad, guns can kill. That's about as resonant as It's the Rage will get. more...
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www.eonline.com - : Everyone's trigger-happy in this tale of desperate urbanites loosely linked by violence and gunplay. But when the smoke clears, you'll wish the comedy had been more on the mark and the dramatic situations as loaded as those ever-present pistols. The film provides challenges for the cast, as Paquin (The Piano) sheds her child-star wings for a tough, streetwise persona. Unfortunately, some characters feel like they've wandered in from another film (Sinise plays a cartoonish, paranoid computer mogul). Others are as sketchy as chalk body-outlines. Only Allen, as the ex-wife of a murderous businessman, shines through all the inconsistency with grace and subtle humor. The multiple storylines eventually lock into a violent climax, but by that point Rage has been shooting blanks too long for us to care. more...
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