10 Films That Stick It To The Man
9. Assault On Wall Street
You can say this for Uwe Boll: he’s never shied away from controversy, and he’ll always speak his mind. Assault On Wall Street is his reaction to the global financial meltdown, and it’s about as subtle as you’d expect from the director of Postal and House Of The Dead.
When Jim Baxford (Dominic Purcell) has everything taken away from him by the crash, he transforms into a well-armed vigilante and starts assaulting banks with all guns blazing. The movie even ends with a very Frank Castle-ish final speech: “I promise that I will keep killing. They should all know that I am out there, a soldier of the people….and if the government, the prosecutors and the judges fail in their duties, I will not fail in mine.”
He doesn’t say “They will call me….The Punisher!”, but that’s all that’s missing from this cartoonish tale, where good and evil are clearly delineated and the film’s direction is never in any doubt.