Human Bomb impressively manages to avoid greater relevance and reason at nearly every turn. We spend the first ~15 minutes of the film with our lead character (the woman from Lethal Weapon) purchasing tickets to Germany, meeting her parents in Germany, trying to get, and then immediately getting a teaching job in Germany - none of this matters anyway because on a completely unrelated note a terrorist demanding a huge amount of money because he is upset with humans for destroying the world takes her class hostage. This may as well have happened on her first day or eighth year of teaching, as with everything else that happens in this movie: it doesn't matter one bit. When the terrorist takes over the class he lets the male teacher leave, again he just as easily could have let the woman from Lethal Weapon go, wouldn't have made a bit of difference except instead of having a scene where they bring her baby to her to breastfeed it while the children in the class are all snoozing on sedatives, there would have been no scene. Or maybe they could have ordered a pizza. Who cares? The breastfeeding baby netted no one any strategic gain. There is no character development on anyone's part and the next day they successfully tackle the bad guy, then the police chief comes over for dinner and the credits roll. Okay. Human Bomb has the cultural gravity of ordering and then changing your mind and having potato salad instead of french fries except there's nothing to eat.
Review of Human Bomb
