Well, we would have had no blog today due to my staying out late last night. But then I went to a late movie. Warning, this blog will ruin the ending of said movie, but it deserves to be ruined.

You may not have heard of the newest Halle Berry film "The Call" because the trailer has not played as much as say, "Live another Day to Die Harder Again" or whatever that new Bruce Willis failure is called, but here is the trailer which tells you almost everything you need to know:


Now despite this movie being produced by WWE Studios, or perhaps because of it, the movie is full of suspense. If you were to go you would be on the edge of your seat. The director uses the age old technique of cross cut editing to help build that suspense plus we have 3 actors of high caliber that bring truth to the story; Halle as our vulnerable but brave hero, Abigail Breslin as our innocent yet steadfast victim and Michael Eklund as the creepy, sadistic bad guy.

As I mentioned, the movie is produced by the WWE wrestling empire and we are told this no less than THREE TIMES before the opening credit of the movie! Now, here is the story with ending: girl kidnapped and killed, 911 operator feels responsible, 2nd girl kidnapped, 911 operator sets out to find her. It's a story we've seen before but with a sinister twist at the end.

It sort of reminds me of another empire like the WWE, what is it...? Oh yes, the "Too Big to Fail" Banks. You remember those guys, right? They can pretty much screw you over then screw you over again? Remember how many of them went to jail? Yeah, me neither. Well, you'll be happy to know that in this movie the same thing happens, yet on a smaller scale.

Our hero rescues the innocent victim just before her sadist kidnapper begins to torture her, they escape by, of course, knocking him out. Normally at this point our protagonists would run to the police and turn him in, right? Cut to hero and victim hugging each other while surrounded by extra's dressed as EMT's and CSI's walking through the many flashing blue and red lights, right?

Nope. Just like the heads of JP Morgan Chase, AIG, Goldman Sachs and the like who cooked up and then cashed in on, a financial boom that was phony - there was no justice. Justice seems to be a thing of the past, and today's Hollywood movie is out to reflect that. Want your super-duper bad guy killed by Navy Seals? First we'll have to torture some people to get info. Sex sells, but revenge is so much more fun!

The WWE can change the nature of a character faster than the swing of a folding chair to the back of the head. Here we have our hero and our saved victim both of whom can return to the life they had, but instead opt to stay behind and become evil. They take our bad guy and tie him to a chair in an underground lair and leave him there to suffer and die.

The families of his other victims will be left forever in limbo without any closure. Any investigation into others he may have killed will be ignored. Countless tax dollars and resources will be used to search for a killer who has now been neutralized. And the "Hero" and the "Victim" now become killers.

Charming. This is what we've become America. A land where revenge is the status quo, except for those on Wall Street.