I just got done watching Daily Wire’s Run Hide Fight: Infidels.
I wanted to like this movie, but I just couldn’t.
This was advertised as the un-canceling of Jonathon Majors, but he only has around 15 minutes of screen time and the movie is over 2 hours long.
Now we come to the real issue of the film which can be summarized in four words:
Politics first, story second.
The whole film feels engineered.
They take over of the campus demanding the release of the leader’s father and to take revenge of Majors’ character.
Then they have the leader give a long and obviously scripted speech to the hostages before forcing them to convert to Islam.
In real life, that’s not what would happen.
In most cases, jihadists give a short religious declaration, then issue their demands.
Then we get to the dialogue.
It is so contrived. Almost every conversation is somehow related to Islam.
They have these girls over and the roommate starts talking to her about it which prompts her to throw her drink in his face and leave.
I get that he served, but politics are not the first thing the majority of men would bring up with a girl even if they’re drunk.
Half the characters are all stereotypes. The leader is a pansexual, blue-haired obnoxious girl who unwittingly helps the terrorists. The roommate is a racist right winger, and the friend is an brainiac Asian kid. In fact he’s asked how he disabled the bomb and he answers, “I’m Asian”.
A good example of a show that does a great good portraying conversations between democrats and republicans is Ted. Seth Macfarlane is a left-winger but he’s fair to both sides.
Matty’s politics come through his upbringing, religion, masculinity, work, and assumptions, not polished Republican talking points.
Blaire is the liberal, but she’s smug, naïve, and overly ideological. Ted even says to her that she’s just as much white trash as the rest of the family.
The family remains affectionate even when they think one another are completely wrong. The conversations are messy, crude, inconsistent, and humorous, the way actual families discuss politics. I get that in a movie you don’t have as much time to develop relationships but you have to make the conversations feel more natural.
I support the Daily Wire’s efforts, but they need to do a much better job telling stories that promote their messaging.