This is atrocious: the correctness is as far removed from subtle and intelligent as possible, rather being a vehicle for its maker's views - which are entirely predictable in their progressive liberal shibboleths. Avoid.
Reviews
9 Reviews
They Came from Beyond Space
(1967)
Terrible...
16 May 2019
Awful, low-budget rubbish.
The story is run-of-the-mill; the acting is perhaps adequate (though compromised by the awful script) - and Hutton is a ham here - but the script, hence the dialogue, is dire, creating an unintentionally laughable film, aided and abetted by dime-store props and cheap, unconvincing locations.
As an example of the very worst of 60s low-budget fare it may be worth viewing for a laugh, otherwise it is wholly meritless.
Have a laugh at the topless alien henchmen at the end in tights, with very un-toned bodies, and their inability to overcome one of the protagonists with a gun - despite standing behind and him apparently unaware! As I said - risible...
The story is run-of-the-mill; the acting is perhaps adequate (though compromised by the awful script) - and Hutton is a ham here - but the script, hence the dialogue, is dire, creating an unintentionally laughable film, aided and abetted by dime-store props and cheap, unconvincing locations.
As an example of the very worst of 60s low-budget fare it may be worth viewing for a laugh, otherwise it is wholly meritless.
Have a laugh at the topless alien henchmen at the end in tights, with very un-toned bodies, and their inability to overcome one of the protagonists with a gun - despite standing behind and him apparently unaware! As I said - risible...
Where's the emotion?
29 April 2019
Warning: Spoilers
I agree with the first reviewer: the expected emotion after a young wife has been killed - murdered, as it transpires to Carter at al - is absent, as though the producer wanted that bit of action out of the way to get on with the primary action. It feels inauthentic. The only character who shows much emotion is Mrs Carter's (former) boss - the headmaster! Mr Carter never gets beyond appearing 'flat'. The story itself is reasonable, but if 'action', not 'emotion', is this series' interest, Carter's wife's death was inapt...
Final Jeopardy
(1985 TV Movie)
Dire, frankly
23 May 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Have just watched. Mainly 'cos of the acting, this sucks: Thomas's character comes over as slightly unhinged - though I don't think it was intended - cos he over-acts, just like the clichéd thugs so often portrayed in American movies of the 80s, which it feels very much of. Crosby is fine but has little to do other than accompany Thomas: she doesn't seem engaged with the movie as there was little for her to do; she seems one-dimensional.
Thomas's character comes over as a bit of a 'dick': he's meant to convey small-town naivety, per plot, but just seems gauche and foolish, such as the scene where he jumps in front of a truck, waving madly, to stop it for a lift... and just stands there, about to be mowed-down. Implausible. If I were Crosby I'd be leaving him to his fate!
Something to watch when doing the ironing, then - certainly not to look out for!
Thomas's character comes over as a bit of a 'dick': he's meant to convey small-town naivety, per plot, but just seems gauche and foolish, such as the scene where he jumps in front of a truck, waving madly, to stop it for a lift... and just stands there, about to be mowed-down. Implausible. If I were Crosby I'd be leaving him to his fate!
Something to watch when doing the ironing, then - certainly not to look out for!
Attack of the Sabertooth
(2005 TV Movie)
Dire
22 December 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Atrocious: no-name actors, appalling CGI, predictable plot and stereotyped characters. You have to wonder why this film was made... Is it a parody? It surely can't be anything else?
This inept film doesn't have much going for it. A kind of JURASSIC PARK with the billionaire messing around with genetics and coming up with sabretooth tigers. The script calls them huge but they look like pussycats. The cast is ineffectual: Robert Carradine doing a Jack Nicholson impression, Nicholas Bell being British and boring and Stacy Haiduk trying to exude sexuality - and flunking. The sub-plot involves - what else? - a group of mindless college kid clichés. There's no suspense.
This inept film doesn't have much going for it. A kind of JURASSIC PARK with the billionaire messing around with genetics and coming up with sabretooth tigers. The script calls them huge but they look like pussycats. The cast is ineffectual: Robert Carradine doing a Jack Nicholson impression, Nicholas Bell being British and boring and Stacy Haiduk trying to exude sexuality - and flunking. The sub-plot involves - what else? - a group of mindless college kid clichés. There's no suspense.
Vicious
(2013–2016)
Rubbish
27 December 2013
About as funny as a dose of genital warts.
The scripts are dire; the only positive feature - and I'm pushing it in saying that - is the two well-known principals, about whom you have to wonder what on earth induced them to stoop this low.
Over the course of 30 long minutes the men bicker with each other, lust over a young, good-looking man by the name of Ash in his tight-fitting t-shirt, and generally mince around, all limp-wristed, calling each other things like "You stinking pile of turd" or 'You cheating slut". Classic one liners, I'm sure you'll agree.
These gay characters are nothing more than camp stereotypes, but the main issue is that this just isn't funny.
Vicious was panned by a number of critics, with the Telegraph saying that the script "fell disastrously flat", and calling it "the least funny new comedy in recent memory"; the Guardian said it was "frankly, a bit lame" and a "Greggs doughnut of a show" (that is, for US readers, 'cheap').
Hard to believe a second series is planned.
Utter rubbish.
The scripts are dire; the only positive feature - and I'm pushing it in saying that - is the two well-known principals, about whom you have to wonder what on earth induced them to stoop this low.
Over the course of 30 long minutes the men bicker with each other, lust over a young, good-looking man by the name of Ash in his tight-fitting t-shirt, and generally mince around, all limp-wristed, calling each other things like "You stinking pile of turd" or 'You cheating slut". Classic one liners, I'm sure you'll agree.
These gay characters are nothing more than camp stereotypes, but the main issue is that this just isn't funny.
Vicious was panned by a number of critics, with the Telegraph saying that the script "fell disastrously flat", and calling it "the least funny new comedy in recent memory"; the Guardian said it was "frankly, a bit lame" and a "Greggs doughnut of a show" (that is, for US readers, 'cheap').
Hard to believe a second series is planned.
Utter rubbish.
Stereotyping
9 November 2013
I agree with those reviewers suggesting that this is an attempt at the English murder mystery genre with Columbo dropped-in. It employs stock characterisation and rather silly stereotyping of Brits, down to the obligatory - and rather poorly comic - cockney accent of a policeman. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be funny or is somehow a parody of the genre (and, indeed, of American's view of Brits). That I suspect it's not 'knowing' in this way is because - and it's easy to forget - it was made in '72, when perhaps Americans really did view Brits more like this, rather than my 2013 perspective of Americans viewing Brits would suggest (I'm a Brit).
Whatever, Americans may find it entertaining 'cos they see (a very dated) London, but for me it's a silly bore; I much prefer Columbo in his authentic setting than trying to make him funny in an alien one. I absolutely agree with the reviewer who observes that his bumbling, for comic purpose only, doesn't work - but works very well and only when it lulls into false security. That still leaves the question of whether it's his character or strategy...
Whatever, Americans may find it entertaining 'cos they see (a very dated) London, but for me it's a silly bore; I much prefer Columbo in his authentic setting than trying to make him funny in an alien one. I absolutely agree with the reviewer who observes that his bumbling, for comic purpose only, doesn't work - but works very well and only when it lulls into false security. That still leaves the question of whether it's his character or strategy...
Dire
8 March 2012
Charles Bronson here doesn't act, just coasts - even more than usual. Perhas we can't blame him - because the script is so poor, and the supporting actors so mediocre at best, with not a few laughably bad. The film's full of mobster clichés, to the extent that you wonder whether this is self-parody. It isn't - it's just dire; 'camp' in a kind of trashy way. By this forth sequel the franchise appears totally to have run out of steam, such that every barrel's been scraped to supply the content. You imagine that even the cast knew it, collected their cheques and ran...
I quite enjoyed some of the earlier films: this is so poor it's unworthy.
I quite enjoyed some of the earlier films: this is so poor it's unworthy.
The Gauntlet
(1977)
Riveting
2 March 2012
Some critics were a bit savage about the plot and 'bad language'; ignore them. It doesn't matter that it's totally implausible towards the end, when the whole police dept seems to be deployed against our heroes. What we get is well-paced, high-octane action sequences throughout and a convincing mouthy and sassy Sondra Locke accompanying Clint in his usual (and only?) macho mode. This wasn't part of the 'Dirty Harry' series - but in most respects it could have been: Clint strolling from one set the the other.
You get a sense of the film's capitalising on a distinctly '70s interest in political and police corruption.
There are some quite well-crafted 'explosive' scenes; the film's just the kind to view over a pizza of an evening when you fancy some involving, trashy drama...
You get a sense of the film's capitalising on a distinctly '70s interest in political and police corruption.
There are some quite well-crafted 'explosive' scenes; the film's just the kind to view over a pizza of an evening when you fancy some involving, trashy drama...
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