A drama in which a town turns to mob violence after everyone's social media is hacked into and exposed.
Like a real-life stroppy teen, Assassination Nation is pissed off with something new every five minutes — but there’s style and sophistication here. The Trump era has its first dorm-room classic.
Enough with the feminism-as-male-titillation, please.
What follows is lurid and provocative in the way that good B-movies often are and though writer/director Sam Levinson has clearly imbibed Natural Born Killers-era Oliver Stone’s approach to cultural satire, it’s an approach that feels apropos for the times.
With so much noise, every point the film wants to make has to be roared via lengthy speeches and declarations made straight down the lens. Any deeper meaning becomes lost. When the fires finally subside, there’s not that much to be found in the ashes.
Sam Levinson on Assassination Nation
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