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Deliria (1987)
Worst acted and worst plot-line ever seen
Contains spoilers!! (although you couldn't really spoil what the director and cast already did to this turkey of a movie!) Not only was this the worst acted movie I've ever seen but the plot line had so many holes in it you could have driven King Kong and his bigger brother through them without touching the sides. The cast was completely wooden (the Thunderbird puppets had more life) - of the lot, I think the guy acting the director was the worst. You would have thought he'd learned to act the morning of the shoot. So melodramatic and over the top, he was woeful. And as for the actress who was expecting a baby - I think she must have gone to the Fay Wray School of Dramatic Art, except Wray could scream better (King Kong again!) The worst part of the plot was the scene before the ending where, after our heroine had cut the electric flex and the murderer had fallen to the ground, what does she do but leave the only weapon she had, the axe, behind?!?! Whadda ladda garbage!!
Sphere (1998)
Tying Up Loose Ends Ruins Movies
**Possible Spoilers** This movie started off with great promise. When a spaceship was discovered beneath the sea and which was found to be of human origin from the future, the story invited exploration of a lot of interesting sub-plots - such as time travel, for example. All were unfortunately ignored for a poor quality baseline which involved the interplay of relationships and trust within the scientific team of experts sent to investigate - some of whom were very weakly drawn. But from around the halfway mark, the director seems to lose the plot (strange, as the author, Michael Crichton was himself producing the movie, as well) and the whole shebang steadily goes from bad to worse. Towards the end, everyone seems to run out of ideas in relation to finishing the story which results in a cobbled-together last minute pact by the surviving 'heroes', full of unconvincing drivel of what happened before (thereby not letting the movie speak for itself) and more garbage as to what to do from now on. It was a total cop-out, in the end.
Surely the first rule of science fiction is that a storyline should be capable of persuading the audience to suspend disbelief. When that fails, the plot fails and no amount of attempting to tie up loose ends - or to play catch-up on what should have been made clear in the first place - can revive, what is fundamentally, a damp squib.
Texas Rangers (2001)
A Justification Of Summary Execution
While I understand that tough measures were needed (at the time) in trying to pacify a lawless frontier region, this movie tries to justify lynching and summary execution without due process - and fails. It also fails miserably to address the race question by allowing the 'token' black into the first batch of Ranger entrants when the first black did not get into the organisation until well into the 20th century. This is a movie trying and failing to be 21st c. politically correct in a 19th c. gang war (good guys v bad guys). Non-riveting performances from the main players with a less than average, clichéd storyline, this is a very poor movie all round.