A fairly low budget, straight-to-video film
attempting a sci-fi story involving space undead, is not likely to deliver on
everything that it promises. The fact
that I couldn’t find positive reviews doesn’t help the promise all that
much. Not to mention that director
Andrew Bellware seems to have spent the bulk of his career, thus far, directing
horrible mockbusters. “Total
Retribution” instead of “Recall”? Not to
mention his follow-up “Prometheus Trap”. Holy cow. How many people fall for that shit?
And so, without any further ado, Starkwell and Lovelock are stuck
watching this mutha’.
[...]
[Woman floats through the sky? Wakes up in a desert.]
Starkwell: Might be the worst green screens
I’ve ever seen.
Lovelock: Waking up naked and
confused? Only Milla Jovovich can pull
that shit off.
Starkwell: Pretty bad ‘Jawa’ rip-off too.
[Shots of… space station?]
Starkwell: The bad effects have just been
taken up a notch.
Lovelock: And what’s with the young British
girl voice for the computer? That’s
another "Resident Evil" Rip-Off!
Starkwell: Yeah, if you’re ripping shit off
from THOSE movies, you’re already in a heap of trouble.
[Naked girl runs into a survivor asking her
to “KILL ME! PLEASE!”]
Lovelock: Aw! And now we’re stealing from
“Alien”?
Starkwell: Super lame.
[...]
So now we cut to some lame “squad”
consisting of two people going around making sure everyone’s head is
blown. The acting is bad, the dialogue
worse, the story atrocious, and the special effects are well… as bad as the
fight choreography. At this point,
Starkwell and Lovelock just want the creepy redhead to put some fucking clothes
on.
[...]
[Naked Redhead is… a robot?]
Lovelock: So what? “Blade Runner” now?
[...]
Then a character in the movie was talking
about the pain he is feeling as the virus takes over his body and says “I just
wish it would end soon!” At the exact
same time, without skipping a beat, both Lovelock and Starkwell said “I know
what you mean.” Not a good sign at only
fifteen minutes into a ninety-ish minute turd.
[...]
Starkwell: I can’t.
Lovelock: Me neither.
[...]
"Waking up naked and confused? Only Milla Jovovich can pull that shit off."
ReplyDeleteThat made me laugh quite a bit especially since she does it so many times in the Resident Evil movies, but I guess they know what their audience wants (although I'd prefer more practical FX).
It's painfully true... it's not even only the Res Evil movies, I think it happens with her in EVERY movie (think Fifth Element)... haha!
DeleteI watched the whole thing......Dumb move on my part.
ReplyDeleteI ended up fast forwarding a little at one point. I couldn't make it.
DeleteWow.
ReplyDeleteSimply the worst.
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