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Rupture (2016)
Painful to sit through
This is a strange one - the trailer looked pretty unnerving - but the finished film is deathly tedious. The director manages to concoct not a single scrap of excitement or fear from the horrific scenario.
The editing is slow to the point of being soporific. There was simply no tension or thrills - just a long drawn out pointless escapade.
The whole premise is scientifically ignorant - indeed comically stupid.
As are the digital FX of The Rupture.
The plot is fatally flawed in that for the vast majority of the film, the viewer has NO clue as to what is going on - just like the protagonist (well played by Noomi Rapace I guess - but all she does is lie flat on a table looking worried or crawl through a vent) - and so dramatically, the entire movie flatlines as the viewer is kept guessing as to the point of the whole thing to the point of tedious distraction.
When the explanation comes - it's cheap and stupid.
Avoid.
Pulse (2006)
Pointless and dull. Youngsters will like it.
The worst advice ever from a college counsellor, the funniest thing ever to fall out of a tumble drier and the worlds most pivotal USB drive, make for some of the lowlights here.
Pulse takes the techno-fear CGI crap-fest genre to a new low, with a dreary, colourless effort of a film that consists of series of increasingly funnier and shittier encounters with a crackling bald man made of TV screen static.
The upshot of it all, is that this ghostly cross-platform virus monster pops out of your PC/cell phone/ PDA/ (in much the same way as the lass out of the ring movies flops out of TV's- although less effectively) and turns a selection of lifeless, drippy nerds into some stains.
On walls, chairs, car seats, etc. The monsters in this film turn you into a smudge. Or you commit suicide first. Its not explained well really.
Unsurprisingly it wipes out almost all of the nerdy students before any regular people spot anything awry.
The intensely irritating ghost apparently drains the will to live from the victim - much like the film itself (cheap shot - my bad) And from the opening scene (surely no one could read a word in a library that badly lit!) you know you are about to be regularly assaulted by noisy blurting MTV visuals featuring Jacob's ladder-esquire, speeded up shots of shuffling bald idiots, trying to pass themselves off as scare scenes.
No amount of stupid looking under-lit geeks grovelling in front of web-cams, will ever be scary, and the threat from the nebulous crackling static man, is so CGI that its difficult to give a toss.
The main problem is the film takes itself so seriously with such a dour humourless approach to the whole scenario, lacking any kind of irony or intelligence, that its apocalyptic ambitions are hollow and distinctly unimpressive.
Which is a pity - as the premise is vaguely Lovecraftian, as these ghosts come to slaughter nerds through a wide bandwidth frequency "from Beyond" - with a bit more time spent on developing this idea, it could have been a lot more interesting.
About an hour and seventeen minutes in, a frantic race with pounding music attempts to drag this pedestrian dross into some form of life, but by then its too late, and a gurning cameo from Brad Dourif sadly only reminds us that his B-movie career far outweighs his successes in film.
What the film lacks in IT savvy terror, it less than compensates for with splatter - of which there is also none at all.
To top it all, there's obviously an unsubtle attempt at pointing out how reliant on communication technology we are, but like the rest of the film, its such a redundantly shallow point, devoid of character or wit, that its unsatisfying and hollow.
Someone should have pressed alt+F4 on the whole thing somewhere along the line. I can only presume the original is superior - its hard to imagine a worse attempt at this techno-invasion idea - but I now feel no compulsion to watch it.
overall 9/10 kidding 4/10 really.
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (2006)
Avoid at all costs
While this might sound harsh, you really don't want to sit through this - unless you are a Lovecraft fanatic. But even then - like me - you'll wish you'd never bothered.
SPOILERS This movie takes a fairly lame HP Lovecraft short story - too short to stretch to feature length as proved here - and makes a campy pantomime complete with terrible acting, ridiculous wigs and some cheap and nasty cgi.
It seems like a third of the film's running time is given over to nonsensical montage flashes. The same few images over and over again. It gets incredibly tedious. As does the music which seems to play away in the background through every second of the film regardless of any attempt at mood or atmosphere. (of which there is none)
The film makers are unable to tell any semblance of story, or write dialogue that isn't excruciating or even generate anything on screen resembling suspense resulting in a state of suspended apathy from the viewer.
There is one moment of interest - a few lines of dialogue from Tom Savini - but he's in it for around a minute.
Sadly - as I support low budget film making - this is the worst kind of home-made garbage. It's as if nobody involved had any clue about how to shoot a picture, or any creative talent. The whole thing is embarrassing to sit through. Somewhat akin to watching a few hours of family video - although that usually makes more sense - but of people you don't know or care about, doing pointless things for 80 minutes.
"Anducious" (sp?) the monster/genius/lump on a guys back is also dire - so anyone wanting a rampaging monster-fest (like a few other HPL adaptations have somehow become) will be disappointed too - in that it has about 10 seconds screen time before slumping pointlessly to the floor.
Which is exactly what I did after watching this flimsy, miserable, waste of film.
I can only presume the other user comments on here are from people involved in the movie trying to drum up interest. My condolences to them!
Pufnstuf (1970)
Great fun!
I remember seeing this on TV in the late 70s - and it stayed with me! It's charming, loud, colourful - a great kids film. I put it on for some friends at a party recently - and naturally they thought I was mad and expected something sick to happen to the puppets a la "Meet the feebles" But no - its wholesome clean fun.
jack wild is in fine form, as is mama cass, and the somehow attractive witchy poo.
If you like the banana splits and you are in your 30's this will re-create that surreal childhood Saturday morning vibe!
Even if I've realised now that Puf himself is a bit crap - as all he does is get captured and run away! Quality TV movie - if, like me, you are into death metal - you'll love it!
House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
Horrible & entertaining - whats not to like?
I really can't understand why there's so much flak on these boards, unless it's getting slated by folks who aren't into classic horror, or are perhaps just kids who can't appreciate the references and have grown up on glib ultra-slick big budget slashers.
Anyone who complains that it is "sick" or "disturbed" - shouldn't be watching films with titles like this one!
It's not brilliant somehow just doesn't quite reach its potential but it is very enjoyable nonetheless as there's a lot more thought and imagination gone into this picture than in 99% of the movies I've seen lately.
Basically if you like horror and are into metal - you may well really enjoy this.
****SPOILERS*****
It's totally OTT and can't exactly be accused of being original - but the characters are entertaining and it zips by at a fair pace - the FX are good - the sets are very nicely crafted - the music is stylish and people get killed in a plethora of ways. There are some terrific set pieces, such as the underground world decorated in skulls and the attack on the car by the scarecrows.
It was a definitely a refreshing change from the slightly sterile and almost embarrassing worlds of the TCM & DOTD remakes- to have a film come at you with a real swagger and vehemence. Chopping off a victims hand and wiping it in their face wearing another victim's father's skin in front of her the crazy underground doctor kept alive with mechanical tubing & still drilling through people's skulls in his lair of surgically created freaks years after his supposed death.
I mean what's not to like????? It's hilarious! And come on - "Dr Satan" - of course it's a dumb name - it's intentionally heavy handed like everything else in the movie.
OK so the crackly, video style inserts are a bit distracting, but hey, if Verfremdungeffekt is good enough for Bertolt Brecht, then it's fine by me here. Serving to distract and put you on edge I thought they added little to the film overall, but helped maintain the frenetic, unhinged atmosphere.
The actors do a great job of hamming up their insane roles Lots of respected genre stars in it. Karen black is still strangely attractive - And of course Baby is very photogenic. On the DVD Capt Spaulding's introduction is hilarious and the extras are fantastic.
If only more films had this kind of imagination and obvious affection for the genre put into them instead of being boring, soulless re-tellings of the same unimaginative story. I can't wait for the sequel.
7/10
28 Days Later... (2002)
Has it's moments
It's a film I've wanted to see for a long time - and last week I finally bought the DVD.
The opening half hour really grabs you - petrol bombs in faces, bulging bloodshot eyes, staggering horrors and a desolate cityscape.
From then on, they have a plot and a story and things, with plenty of dialogue, character development and eventually they explore good ideas based around the initial premise of this chilling end-of-the-world scenario.
But it doesn't have buckets of gore and tons of mindless violence - which is the reason I wanted to see it in the first place.
Apart from being erroneously acclaimed as a Zombie film, it's more your kind of "survival in the face of apocalyptic adversity" type of affair - with the "infected" being humans imbued with terrible uncontrollable rage replacing yer actual "walking dead."
There are a few moments of gore and violence - and by and large they are done with style. There are also a few moments of excellent suspense, delivering genuinely hair-raising thrills.
Basically, I mean to say that it is a cut above the typical horror fare that is served to the brain dead masses, and it delivers a fairly satisfying couple of hours entertainment.
It has emotional impact too - again something that your average horror movie lacks - and screen time is spent developing ideas rather than wringing scene upon scene out of a single concept.
28 Days later - with it's digital video look, is very reminiscent of British TV's scifi of the 70's and early 80's - THE SURVIVORS - QUATERMASS - DAY OFTHE TRIFFIDS (not the dire movie) - possessing a sinister sense of low-budget menace, clipped diction and impending doom.
But it strikes me that 28 days is a bit of a quick turnaround to lose the entire UK - and not have anyone with a radio to pick up foreign broadcasts or satellite TV.....
Ah well - a thought provoking, genuinely horrible at times, movie, but not in the same league as Romero's mighty Zombie trilogy.
Initial thoughts 6/10
- ahhh what the hell, ambitious UK films deserve a lot more support than big budget Hollywood garbage that's floating around at the moment -
7/10 for effort.
Battlefield Earth (2000)
A bargain bucket laugh
Aww come on you guys! Nobody forced you into watching this pap!
It kept me entertained for a few minutes as I found it in a poundstretcher shop for £1.99 on VHS.
So what if it's poo. All it takes is one look at the cover to realise what kind of a movie it is. I read sophocles and plato to think - I watch crap films to be entertained.
Spoilers???? as if you could care!
Seriously though, the plot seems concerned with a ludicrous gold mining robbery by oversized fatheads from outer space.
Where's the harm in that!
As a plot it's "waffer theen" - so who knows what Elron Cubboard wrote for a thousand or so pages in the book!
In the meantime we have a load of extras from waterworld running around, getting captured, escaping, getting captured, escaping, getting captured, escaping, getting captured, escaping, and then saving the Earth with a few Harrier jump jets and a nuclear barrel.
If that's not entertainment I don't know what is!
Seriously though. It's cheese galore. Ideally, there would be no such film ever made as this, but there are thousands of them. So much for thought and originality, but I blame Hollywood for beng too crass and stupidly patronising to it's target audiences.
It entertained me for about 4 on the dumbo scale
My Little Eye (2002)
I spy with my big eye, something smelling of "s"
It's a pity the creators didn't make any effort at developing character - or plot - or indeed something other than a film which is nearly an exact rip off of "the shuttered house" - but swapping S&M webcams for Snuff webcams to be different.
I wanted to see a "horror film" - but then again there hasn't been one made in decades worthy of the name.
MISANTHROPIC SPOILER ALERT
I tried to enjoy it - seeing dumb teenagers killed is how I get my kicks in films - but for the life of me I couldn't find a redeeming feature - barring the spooky glowing eyes greenvision night filming.
Just the premise of folks spending 6 months in a house with strangers is far more interesting than the drivel on show - but as there is no depth to anything from the US these days - the lack of understanding of dramatic elements from the creators, eliminates the possibility of any tension in situations they come up with. Instead we fast forward to the last couple of days of the stunt and endure some lame incidents which result in a lot of clamour and shoutiness - from novice actors squawking predicatable and largely worthless lines.
Convenient in terms of a short film - but poor plotting story wise.
The climax - as it is - comes as no surprise and the film is almost entirely shockless and gore-less. My happy-go-splatter cheery demeanour was crushed with bored misery by the time the credits rolled - and due to a printing error in the running time, I had expected (indeed looked forward to) another 25 mins of screen time, but as soon as the final die is cast the film abruptly ceases - just when there was scope for a bit of extreme nastiness and depravity onscreen - (I won't elaborate but I was sorely aggrieved that nothing further happened. ha ha ha)
It's as if the "Texas Chainsaw massacre" hadn't been made. Now that is a low budget movie that delivers the goods - in fact it is almost a blueprint for every film that came after. A pity the makers obviously hadn't heard of it really, as in the 28 years since it was made - it seems that the horror genre has completely lost the power to be original or shock - and is regressing in quality.
Too many stupid contrivances. No depth. Pointless in the extreme. Characterless/faceless/useless. I really cannot think of a single good reason to watch this absolute crying disgrace of a film.
Really - see it yourself by all means - I'm only writing this to get it out of my system so I no longer feel spavined by abnegation - but if you dig Halloween, Texas Chainsaw massacre, Argento, Hooper, Romero movies etc, peter jackson even (his pre LOTR stuff)- and you know your horror movies
like me - then you will sit there stunned that people as giftless and feckless as this are allowed anywhere near a movie camera.
On the other hand if you thought "Jeepers creepers" was good (well the first 15 mins are OK) then you may be enthralled by this little flick. If you are scared by flapping birds, or green lights, then you'll love it.
I simply left the cinema with a really miserable face on. As a writer I make a point of seeing 100's of films a year to hone my craft, and each year I swear that the decent ones are both fewer in number and lesser in quality. What the hell is going wrong out there in film land????
1/10 for horror fans. 5/10 for folks who haven't a clue about horror films. 10/10 for morons/blair witch fans.
Lost Highway (1997)
After my initial disappointment - 3 days later, I can't wait to see it again!
I recently picked up Lost Highway in an ex-rental store - for £1.99. (Along with Jackie Brown and Dark City also for the same price.) A bargain I thought.
After spending what seemed like a year of my life watching it, (although it was only a Sunday evening/afternoon) I felt I'd been robbed!
As the end credits rolled I released a startled, choked laugh of surprise, which woke my girlfriend who was sleeping on the couch next to me -she couldn't even remain conscious throughout it's duration - and when she asked me what happened, I was at a loss to offer an explanation.. As would most people be.
But - I'm not a dumb ass - and I knew I'd seen something genuinely original. After dwelling on it for a while, primarily the credit sequences - that hurtling road and Bowie's fantastic song Deranged, - I simply can't wait to watch it again. Three days later and I'm still thinking about it!
I'm a fan of cheesy films, independent films, violent films, chaotic - disruptive anarchic films - good films or bad films - I don't care (hence my hysteria at watching the cornball `ghosts of mars' - it was *FUN*) - as long as they are entertaining - or have some justification in their being made in the first place. As so many films these days are made simply to expand the coffers of the studios so they can release more and more idiotic tales of stupid sentimentality and right wing propaganda. I like films that get by on their own merits - not by just having big name actors mug and wink at each other - which is why `Harold and Maude' is a better love story than `Sleepless in Seattle' and `Notting Hill' and their nauseating ilk will ever be! I just like films - period - I also write screenplays and novels too, it doesn't make me any more qualified mind - I'm just a big fan of cinema and the medium of film as both an art form and an entertainment media.
In fact the only films I dislike are the patronising formulaic studio crap - sequels, Julia Roberts/ Demi Moore vehicles etc. mindless action films, unless they have originality or personality, (like Jackie Chan for example - I can forgive him anything as he's fantastic) and Lost Highways staunchly anti-commercial, anti-narrative, hypnotic and hectic collusion of images and scenes, the dreamlike storyline that atrophies into a disturbing, insane loop, makes it a contender for my film of the year! - Or at least the film that I like seemingly just to confound my friend's as they never get them and think I am deliberately doing it to be highbrow!
If you can relate to my tastes then you'll probably like it - if you enjoyed the uneccessary "Planet of the apes" remake/ debacle/ reinterpretation, then you'll find this very heavy going!
What you get with Lost Highway is an open-ended narrative that deliberately explains nothing and blurs both the accepted cinematic rules and visual vocabulary of what we expect in modern movies. It's a free form, lazy, almost easy-going nightmare that glides hauntingly and quietly from one surreal scene to the next - some are simply gripping in their intensity, others alienating in their sparse, Pinter-esque dialogues. Characters are dispassionate, guarded creatures that show little emotion, and the sinister Mystery man in black, comes across as the most interesting, but is also sadly afforded the least screen time.
Overall - if you watch this film expecting to follow a story and passively allow the visuals to narrate to you, then you'll be disappointed - and big time! But if you are tired of knowing what is going to happen next when you watch a film, and are sick of the sight of the same few industry assholes getting paid millions, and confusing their pay-checks with their talent, then watch this dangerous and unpredictable masterpiece of the surreal and enjoy it as a unique piece of visual artistry.
It's not Lynch's best - I'm a big fan of Blue Velvet and Wild At Heart (although I do find some parts hard to take!) But he's undeniably an intriguing intelligent filmmaker, and worthy of support. There maybe difficult moments where you may lose the thread, but it's worthy of perseverance if you are interested in expanding your movie-going tastes.
It's not perfect - perhaps only Halloween and Star Wars are the only true ideals in capturing their respective genres and remaining unequalled masterpieces - You do have to invest an amount of attention to enjoy this film, and even use your brain while you watch it, but it's a hell of a lot better way to spend a winters evening than watching something like pearl bloody habroror, or whatever.
I can honestly say that, now after seeing the film, I can understand why there was nothing in the way of a description or a synopsis on the back of the video box!
7/10 Unique, flawed, disjointed, confusing, unsettling, disturbing - Great.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
A fantastic epic with no equal - but tragically Kid-friendly too
Kind of like an experience rather than a movie - "epic" permeates this entire film - and the feeling of wonder stays with you long after leaving the cinema.
The casting is perfect - everyone is exactly right for their characters - Gandalf has all the poise and power you'd expect - Elijah Wood is a wide eyed revelation - the Orcs.. Well they're not at as charismatic as they were in the cartoon version - but then again - the film is only book 1 so by the time it ends the quest is only just getting underway. Big assed, big headed dudes with dreads, big gums and little teeth. I guess I'll have to see how they fare in full scale scenes of slaughter in the next movie though - before I can comment on whether Jackson orcs are as good as Bakshi ones.
The most interesting emphasis is the power of the ring itself- and this icon of dangerous temptation really crystallises the whole quest into a sustainable narrative drive over the relatively short 3 hour running time. There is always an impressive sense of urgency, which motivates the characters - a believable through line of action that modern films have long forgotten. (eg Any horror film of the last 18 years - If there's a monster killing people - why isn't everyone acting scared when they deliver their lines - instead of just lamely posturing and making "Halloween" references? shows how good a director of actors Jackson is.)
The action scenes needed to last longer I thought. I'm a fan of Peter Jackson - he is a master of the amusingly violent black comedy action sequence. A lot has been mentioned about the lack of time devoted to character development, but I'd argue that consumes the most screen time by far. When the action does kick in though, the monsters are generally good -the fights with bows are excellent - computer graphic arrows really kick ass: even better than Crow out of Hawk the slayer - and the skirmish at the end at least has some dramatic impact, but I'd have liked to have seen more comedy amputations in line with the splatter of his other work.
I think there's a bit of pandering going on to the 8yr olds of this world by the studio (Or rather the deep pockets of their parents) which makes me almost rabid with anger. (No one STAYS 8 yrs old for gods sake! They'd get to see it later anyway) Film is more important than an age demographic, and the resulting dilution of adult content that occurs. I am a grown up, and my tastes largely differ from that of an 8yr old - why then should I have to accept their standards?
Justification for violent sequences:
You have a commendably realistic film in every other sense, and then you have battles where burly enemies are felled by a slap with the flat of a blade: nothing rams the artifice of film making home worse as a noticeably unrealistic fight scene. If you fight with a sword - bits of your opponent come off - It's a simple fact. Yet it hardly happens here. I'm hoping that they get the black blood bags out for the second movie and plump for a more exciting film, rather than sucking up to film censors and delivering a children's movie from an adults book (Jackson should do an adult version of the Hobbit after this - with Goblins being hacked into chum - to redress the imbalance of putting in kiddie-safe fight scenes in Lord of the Rings)
Maybe the revenue generated will release some of the pressure on Jackson in terms of contractually delivering commercial diluted violence for the next two movies, and let him put out the best films possible. If Braveheart could achieve it - an unrealistic film in every other sense - then why not this! I realise New Line cinema stress they have taken a huge gamble in making such an ambitious project - but with source material so good and Jackson at the helm - there was never any doubt that it would be a success
Gripe over. fight scenes are entertaining enough - particularly the Mines of Moria sequences, and I'm sure I'll forget my initial disappointment
Overall though, it's a stunningly impressive achievement. jackson keeps it moving briskly and even manages to wring pathos and melodrama from the impressive cast. Plenty of weepiness to cater for the ladies, just enough fighting, hacking and arrows zinging around like gunfire, to satisfy the action fans. jackson has tried to keep everyone happy - from the moron in the street who goes to the cinema because he's programmed to, to the English Scholar who knows the books by heart
Much has been made of the FX - nothing special in this day of CGI proliferation - almost as good as ILM - especially since so much of it is virtual scenery and compositing, ILM's speciality.
The film starts with a cracking fight sequence, and ends on a bit of a downer (I know what's coming next though and the prospect of seeing entire warring armies is extremely enticing) and in between there's just under three hours of the kind of film making that is a delight to watch - it's imaginative, exciting, epic and inspiring. Just what a fantasy film should be.
another 10/10
As an afterthought - It's a far less laughable statement than suggesting some cack like "The Godfather" is number 1 film ever. Surely every cinema goer knows Star Wars (the 1977 film) is the best - it re-invented the motion picture as we know it and it's story is distilled from every archetype known to man - it's no longer my own favourite film - but it's easily the best film ever made. No other film will (or can) ever have such impact again. Ever.
Ghosts of Mars (2001)
Dumb, loud and violent - easily the most entertaining film I've seen in years!
I saw this film with no preconceptions - it was billed as a 2hr french drama with subtitles in error at the cinema in Liverpool, which explains why the room was empty! But I'm not stupid - I'm a movie buff, and I knew it was John Carpenters latest - and it delivered the most entertaining hour and a half of cinema I've seen in years!
Having had to sit through big budget dross, like the Apes remake, Hannibal, Gladiator, (and practically every other studio film from the US in the past 5 years) it was so refreshing seeing the thrifty John Carpenter return to form after the rather average Vampire$.
So what if the sets are cheap. So what if the acting is by-numbers. So what if the flashback format is needless. Carpenter's films have always been almost Brechtian in simplicity in order to tell us the story, and the film works by setting up a hokey premise and then pouring on the action towards the end in some great (if almost TV movie styled) set pieces.
Simply put, the title gives away the entire plot of the film. There are no great twists, no high-concept subplots, no depth to what is essentially a retro styled blast into sci-fi cowboy territory! Assault on precinct 13 on mars with a pinch of Prince of Darkness, and a debt to every cowboy flick ever made! (They even have Marshals and deputies! How I cheered!)
A tightly plotted, streamlined, low budget, action film. Better than the flabby excesses of say `Face/off' not as good as the more lightweight `Big Trouble in little China' and about as far removed from `Saving Private Ryan' or `Pearl Harbor' as you can get. In short: as a low budget blast, it has to get by on imagination and entertainment value instead of Big budget bangs and star names!
Detractors of this film are more than likely right in their criticisms - it's not a master class in suspense and brings nothing new to the sci-fi actioner, but taking as it does a few simple plot ideas and some rather cheap sets, it delivers a pacy futuristic blast without any preachy nonsense. Perfect popcorn fodder! Total mindless entertainment!
I thought it was fantastic for its simplicity! The film wastes no time in developing its scenario: The ghost town - Miners all dead or missing. The only survivors are locked in the jail. (Ice Cube as a hardened criminal comes across as vaguely charismatic, but he hasn't the class of Darwin Jostin as Napoleon Wilson in Precinct 13.)
Before long, to Carpenter's simply fantastic percussive Techno-metal soundtrack, we're treated to the site of a horde of made up extras chanting nonsense beneath flaming torches and massacring any humans they can find. (Some great decapitations and limb-loss but not quite on the scale of Starship Troopers)
The ghosts themselves are revealed through some enjoyably dodgy First Person camerawork complete with scratchy video FX and otherworldly hissing as they try and float down people's ears to possess them!
The protagonists, cops and robbers alike, are forced to fight against the overwhelming odds and a considerable amount of gunplay later, and I mean a lot - more killings than probably in his entire career - we have the obligatory open ending lifted directly from `return of the living dead!' And all the more entertaining for it!
Everything about the film exudes John Carpenter. The pounding metronomic music, the sparse dialogue, the symbolic stock characters, the perfectly paced narrative, the references from his other work, the dodgy crowd scenes, the overall cheapness, the cool lines `Lets go kick some ass - I guess it's what we're best at' and `Scumbag?? Who are you calling scumbag? M**********R?' and some of the best choreographed fight scenes from a western director ever. It really is a tour de force of low budget action movie making. He wrings about every last cent from the purse and bangs it up there onscreen!
But be warned - not everyone will like this and I can easily see why some would hate it - it is made to deliver the goods to a specific demographic. It's very loud and crude at times. But if you are in the mood to be entertained, then this will really deliver the goods. It's action packed, (some fantastic shootouts- especially the retreat from the prison where they act like British soldiers circa the Boer War!) it's full of one-liners, some great set pieces, and it has Natasha Henstridge in leather!
Personally, I laughed out loud more than I have in years- simply out of the delight of being entertained by a film and not sitting there wishing I was back home!
It's outrageous, dumb, loud, fun! And if you don't enjoy this film, then you are missing, not only a sense of humour, but the point of it all!
Actually, that's probably a little harsh - if you see this film expecting a French drama, then you'd have every right to complain! The movie poster gives everything away though, so If you don't like the idea of watching people with guns shoot mutilated space mutants to thumping soundtrack - then don't watch it!
I for one though, am almost gagging for the DVD release!!