Rant

World-class raconteur Kevin Smith finally gets his dynamic on with this Red State ad. Caught about half an hour of Dogma the other night on TV, and as fun as the religion riffs can be, anything moving is flat as hell. Action is antithetical to that movie. The second a movement threatens excitement, it's either lost in a crash of mismatching edits, or a fragment in a dull master. Maybe that's why this shill fizzes? It's like Smith's been allowed to make a balls nasty X-Files episode. Sweaty hand-held, low-angles, prowling close-ups, and 70s cop stair vaulting: this is Smith cooking. It's fun to see. Fingers crossed Michael Parks and John Goodman get to have a sweaty, shirtless, WRESTLE.