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The Brazen Bull (2010)
Despite some unrealistic events, a good film, worth a watch
From the rating on this IMDb page and the fact that this was straight- to-DVD release I wasn't expecting much, but I was presently surprised.
Despite the two female characters annoying me at the beginning and the somewhat unrealistic conversations they had about leaving the building, as well as there being no phone reception in the middle of a major city I enjoyed it.
After the first twenty minutes or so the film began to get good, as Madsen was introduced the film just got better and better.
The torture scenes were quite well done for a low budget B-movie.
The acting from Madsen was great, as always and the film really left me feeling sorry him, despite him being the bad guy.
Despite not particularly liking any of the female cast the story was good, the acting was decent, the gore was good and overall the film was worth the watch.
I would recommend this film to everyone, well, maybe not children.
Vlog (2008)
Good for a bit of gore (though there wasn't much) but nothing else really
I had high hopes for this film before watching it as it seemed like an interesting premise, and the Saw connection was a bonus too.
It started off okay and seemed like it was going somewhere good but the film was overall, a bit of a let down.
The only positive was the gore, not enough to call this a gory film, i.e. Saw or Hostel, so it's not really even worth a watch for those who just want to see blood and guts.
The "twist" at the end as somewhat annoying, although I had never guessed the outcome and it. But for some reason I just found it boring, maybe because the film had basically been boring up until this point.
Also, there were some unrealistic parts such SPOILER: police not seeming to care and the fact that it couldn't be verified that a woman was murdered in a club full of people :SPOILER
By the end I was failing to see much a similarity to Saw, so I watched the end credits to actually see who was involved that I would have recognised from Saw. Low and behold there was no-one, it seems only production company is the same.
Overall, it could have been a good film but it was a let down.