MOVIE REVIEW – Gung Ho

Holy cow, if you have a need to become stupider (there you go) or simply need a new “worst movie ever” to add to your collection, just watch this movie. There is no redeeming quality to this movie. I’ve already spent too much time explaining it to family and friends, but the brief synopsis of the whole movie is that American’s are rude, lazy complainers who disrespect authority and still end up getting what they want. It stars Michael Keaton, who is supposedly the hero of the movie, but if I had any respect for him previously, it’s gone. George Wendt (NORM from Cheers) was also in it and he’s gone way down on my list too. It’s about an automobile plant that goes out of business and the whole town loses their jobs. Michael Keaton’s character saves the day by getting a Japanese company to buy the plant and get everyone back their jobs. It results in a clash of cultures when the Japanese have a far superior work ethic and the American’s refuse to change. They end up trying really hard to reach a goal, all the while cutting corners and ensuring poor quality in the cars, and when the Japanese leader sees how poor quality the cars are, he says they didn’t reach their goal . . . which they didn’t, and says they don’t get their raises. Rightly so, seriously . . . but then Michael Keaton gives this stupid speech about teamwork and they end up getting their raises anyway! Seriously, I hated this movie. Lazy American’s.