Review of Adulthood (2008) by Mike M — 10 Jun 2008
A strong whiff of commercial-minded insincerity hovers over everything from the Danny Dyer cameo ("jog on, bruv") to the split-screen violence, often played for obnoxious laughs, to the pounding grime soundtrack.
As the astoundingly hateful attitude towards supporting characters lets on, this franchise isn't really interested in fostering understanding or brokering reconciliation; it's much too busy pandering to its base - 16-to-24-year-old kids - whose claims to being disenfranchised by society might merit a legitimate hearing if all of contemporary popular culture, including "Adulthood", wasn't already clamoring for their attentions.
It's a film designed - calculated, even - to bring out the right-wing misanthrope grandad in the rest of us; no more, in the end, than a well-mounted PR campaign for bringing back conscription and the birch.
This review of Adulthood (2008) was written by Mike M on 10 Jun 2008.
Adulthood has generally received positive reviews.
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