I was told this was a good none video game Uwe Boll film as far as his movies go. Its about a guy who assembles a rampage plot, devastates a town and gets away with it in the end. I live next to Finland so I thought I could get an adrenalin rush from this film. I was disappointed.
The biggest letdown was the camera. The movie is shot in super deluxe shaky cam mode as if Uwe decided to cut as much expenses as possible on the camera crew. Not once did I see an active scene with a clear use of a tripod. This degraded a pro directed movie to a cinema graduate amateur film. It would get more points for being low budget if it didn't have the shakes. Also replacing some of the more intense street shootings with close-ups of the guys face wile he breathes heavily was just engagingly pathetic directing.
So this kid assembles a reinforced riot suit, builds a remote controlled car bomb and gets some guns all through his friends postbox. Later he frames his friend for all his doings and gets out of town. In between we get a rampage, complete with one mega cgi explosion. Unfortunately that simplicity is only half the movie.
The other half is useless attachment attempts to characters and expanding motivations, stretched out with pointless scenes, hurtful stupidity and annoying dialogs. No one in this movie was likable or real (won't blame them for not trying). When the slaughter began I couldn't care less what happened to anybody. People ran out in front of the maniac instead of hiding in an alley or something. Some didn't even care that a murderer was on a killing spree right next to them. The cops were THE worst portrayal of law enforcers I had ever seen. And in the end the kid got lucky far too many times. Not one camera caught his face when he took off the helmet.
The completely unnecessary beginning was jumpy, poor, slow and ruined the mood for the rest of the movie. The riot suit was just some thin black plate mail, not fit to stop a real life bullet. And in the end the father of the framed friend for some reason knew exactly who did it when he was dragged away. Also the kids parents acted like morons when they found out that their kids friend slaughtered half the town. With parents like that I wondered how he even got his lazy head to do all the stuff he did.
So in the end I was bored out of my scull on how implausible this low grade rampage was, even though it had a low budget and almost no cgi. If you think this film is good than you are desperate.
The biggest letdown was the camera. The movie is shot in super deluxe shaky cam mode as if Uwe decided to cut as much expenses as possible on the camera crew. Not once did I see an active scene with a clear use of a tripod. This degraded a pro directed movie to a cinema graduate amateur film. It would get more points for being low budget if it didn't have the shakes. Also replacing some of the more intense street shootings with close-ups of the guys face wile he breathes heavily was just engagingly pathetic directing.
So this kid assembles a reinforced riot suit, builds a remote controlled car bomb and gets some guns all through his friends postbox. Later he frames his friend for all his doings and gets out of town. In between we get a rampage, complete with one mega cgi explosion. Unfortunately that simplicity is only half the movie.
The other half is useless attachment attempts to characters and expanding motivations, stretched out with pointless scenes, hurtful stupidity and annoying dialogs. No one in this movie was likable or real (won't blame them for not trying). When the slaughter began I couldn't care less what happened to anybody. People ran out in front of the maniac instead of hiding in an alley or something. Some didn't even care that a murderer was on a killing spree right next to them. The cops were THE worst portrayal of law enforcers I had ever seen. And in the end the kid got lucky far too many times. Not one camera caught his face when he took off the helmet.
The completely unnecessary beginning was jumpy, poor, slow and ruined the mood for the rest of the movie. The riot suit was just some thin black plate mail, not fit to stop a real life bullet. And in the end the father of the framed friend for some reason knew exactly who did it when he was dragged away. Also the kids parents acted like morons when they found out that their kids friend slaughtered half the town. With parents like that I wondered how he even got his lazy head to do all the stuff he did.
So in the end I was bored out of my scull on how implausible this low grade rampage was, even though it had a low budget and almost no cgi. If you think this film is good than you are desperate.