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It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Whenever Hollywood decides to "teach America what it should think" the result is a lousy movie. And this waste of time is really a lousy movie. Why sacrifice an hour and a half of your life being lectured to by a film, when you could just read a Handgun Control, Inc. leaflet and get just as much misinformation? But at least you can see this one coming a mile away. Sometimes Hollywood's elite moralizers sneak the message in without letting on that it's a "message movie." I really hate it when that happens. "The Adjustment Bureau" (2011), I think it was, ended with an endless lecture about personal choice and personal responsibility, taking a merely goofy movie right down the drain.I can't recommend this one AT ALL. I'd give it a "0" but IMDb will only let me rate it a 1.

****SPOILERS*** Somewhat disjointed movie broken down into three segments about how gun violence changed the lives of a number of Americans who were victimized by them with the exception of the one about gun store owner Carl Wilks played by a snow white haired looking Donald Southerland. It's Wilks who's granddaughter Many-Ann, Linda Cardellini, had undergone a traumatic experience back in her Virginia Collage dorm when her best friend Cicily, Schuyler Fisk, was knocked out by and raped by fellow collage student, Andrew Caple-Shaw, after he slipped a date drug into her drink. The only thing that guns have to do in this segment of the film beside Carl running a gun shop in having him teach Mary-Ann how to properly shoot one and prevent what happened to her friend Cicily not to happen to her.The segment with burnt out inner Chicago high school principal Mr. Carter, Forest Whitaker, is more on the ball in how guns effect those who are involved with them. Trying to keep peace in his school Carter's home life is falling apart with him ignoring his wife and child in order to get honor student Jay, Arlen Escarpeta, to straighten himself out and not keep a gun, which isn't loaded, on him at all times. As we soon find out Jay needed the the gun on his after school job at a gas station and liquor store for protection not to mug or shoot anyone. And as it soon turned out it was in not having that gun on him, during an armed robbery, that almost cost Jay is life!The third and most telling segment has to do with single mom Janet Huttenson, Marcia Gay Harden, who's oldest son Robert participated in a Columbine type high school massacre in Ellisburgh Oragan's Ridgedale High school. It's there where Robert and an equally kill crazy and mentally unstable friend of his gunned down some dozen students before killing themselves before the police could arrest or shot them. There's also local policeman Frank, Tony Goldwyn, who's been living with the guilt of doing nothing to prevent the massacre by standing outside the school, waiting for orders from his superiors, while the massacre was in progress. Besides Janet problems her younger son David, Chris Marquette, is now in danger of being thrown out of the St. Anthony private high school in her not being able to pay his tuition and ending up back in Ridgedale High where his deceased brother Robert gunned down some dozen students!Somewhat confusing but still effective movie in how guns in America have changed the lives of those who both use and are the victims of them. Since the shootings in Virginia Tech in 2007 and the Aurora movie house in Denver Colorado and of course the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre last year the movie is far more timely now then it was when it was released back then in 2005/06. That's when it played in just one theater for 10 weeks and made under $25,000.00 in ticket sales.

"American Gun" is an amazing, quiet movie that packs so much into an hour and 37 minutes. It's about the lives, ones of desperation and defeat, that different people around the nation live with every day, ones affected by guns.Marcia Gay Harden plays a single mother whose son participated in a shooting at his high school and was killed. Even though that was years ago, she lives trapped in that time, that single moment that shaped her life and her younger son's life forever. For anyone who heard about the tragedy at Columbine, saw the footage and were outraged, for anyone who thought, "What were the parents doing? Why didn't they stop those children from taking guns into that school?" this movie shows the other side. And will make you think.Linda Cardellini is a college student who works in her grandfather's (played by Donald Sutherland) gun shop. She's uncomfortable around him, around the shop, but family obligation keep there day after day.Arlen Escarpeta plays Jay, an African-American high school student who carries a gun to school. But he's also a straight A student and takes care of his mother and younger siblings.At the heart of this movie is Carter (Forest Whitaker), a principal at Jay's high school, a man who is there to make a difference. He talks to those kids, he tries to make them understand there's more to life than guns and gangs. He's so dedicated that sometimes he neglects his own family to help others.There are no easy stereotypes in this movie, no pat answers. No one is simply one thing. The main characters are real, sometimes unrelentingly horrible, sometimes kind to each other. Whether you are pro or anti-gun, this movie will make you question what you believe and give you something to think about.

From the first time I heard about the movie, I've been waiting to see it. I finally saw it earlier tonight after begging my mother to order the movie on DEMAND. Like my title implies, the film ended too soon. I knew beforehand that it was only 95 minutes, but that's way different than actually watching it.The characters - no matter how awful or sweet - somehow makes you love them in one way or another. You can't help but me sympathetic to each situation, because every character has something to offer. You will walk away learning something, no doubt.To the ones who say they're tired of intertwining stories or whatever, this is one of the best films you could ever hope to witness with your own two eyes.This movie is a true tale. I live like these characters almost everyday and I know people like that. So please give it a chance before you rag. I promise you won't regret it.