If there's one film cliche I hate, it's the affirmative action disaster scenario. Be it Armageddon or Saw II or Con Air, the idea that every OMG-level emergency has to have a divorced mom, an Hispanic convict, a motherless kid, a college-aged chick, a black gangsta-type, and a gay Jew is just the most contrived bullshit imaginable. And yet Blindness takes this to a whole new level.
This movie is terrible. It has not one redeeming quality. It features fat and dirty blind men raping fat and dirty blind women. It stars Danny Glover. It features no explanation and barely any resolution. It takes the Oooh-WTF moments of Cloverfield; the Hazmat overload of E.T.; the trite everyone's-connected technique of Crash, Magnolia, and Babel; the prison rebellion scenes of The Last Castle; the prison guard style of The Shawshank Redemption; and the plot sophistication of It's Pat. It is pointless at best and insulting at worst. I have a thing where I never walk out of a theater and never turn off a movie I set out to watch. I came eerily close to doing this tonight. What a crapfest.
AND STOP PUTTING DANNY GLOVER IN MOVIES.
