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| Year: 2005 |
| Director: Uwe Boll |
| Cast: Stephen Dorff, Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff, Frank C. Turner, Matthew Walker, Will Sanderson, Mark Acheson, Darren Shahlavi, Karin Konoval, Craig Bruhnanski, Kwesi Ameyaw, Dustyn Arthurs, Catherine Lough Haggquist, Ed Anders, Brad Turner |
| Genres: Thriller, Horror, Action |
| Runtime: 96 min. |
| IMDB: This film on IMDB |
| Subtitles: OpenSubtitles.org |
| Soundtrack: available |
Edward Carnby (Slater), detective of the paranormal, unexplained and supernatural, investigates a mystery (the recent death of a friend) with clues leading to "Shadow Island" that brings him face to face with bizarre horrors that prove both psychologically disturbing and lethal, as he discovers that evil demons worshiped by an ancient culture called the Abskani are planning on coming back to life in the 21st century to once again take over the world... and only he and a young genius anthropologist with an incredible memory (and his ex-girlfriend), Aline Cedrac (Reid), stand in their way, at a gateway to hell. Standing in Carnby's way, however, is the impact that a brief encounter with an evil spirit called the Queen had upon his mind, as he slowly finds himself overpowered by the forces of darkness as they eat away at his very sanity... |
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| Date: 2007-10-04 01:32:42 |
User: James Shields |
This should be my kind of movie. Even if it sucked, it still should have been right up my alley; hell, I like "Congo," and "Allan Quatermaine" movies. I have a soft spot in my heart for silly alien/demon/adventure movies. Let's go over why I decided to watch this in the first place.
1. Horror/Sci-fi almost always intrigues me 2. I'm a big fan of archaeology, and this movie does involve a rare treasure. 3. Super-natural enemies with quality FX. 4. Christian Slater and Dorf I generally enjoy. 5. Tara Reid is hot.
So this movie had potential, at least in the cheese-horror section of the video store, but boy did it suck ass. The only redeeming aspects are Slater and Dorf, and not everyone finds them as entertaining as I do...I mean, let's face it, both are melodramatic. But now on to some of the many faults.
Tara Reid. Even though the movie as a whole is worse, Reid's performance is truly awful. We're not just talking bad, I'm talking about nominating Tara Reid for worst performance of the year. I don't know if she is capable of acting, but playing the museum curator is simply out of her league...completely. Watching her try to carry the roll of educated scientist wasn't much different than what you get watching the setup in bad porn. I mean this isn't just bad, it is laughably bad. Oh, and for those of you curious, she doesn't get naked, only down to a bra in a silly, totally unnecessary love scene.
Even with Reid's performance, perhaps the movie could have worked, but the plot is what dominates, and the plot seems written by a 10 year old. I hadn't realized this was a video game adaptation until AFTER watching the DVD, otherwise I would have appreciated the stupidity in real-time.
The storyline jumps back and forth from Slater's childhood at an orphanage where he gets flashbacks of something terrible that happened, he has amnesia, of course. In his adult life Slater was recruited by some Unit 713, a paranormal military force that apparently hunts evil or something. Slater had to leave because he was too rebellious, I guess, you never really know unless it was in one of those voice-overs I zoned out during. The movie starts with Slater hunting artifacts, obtaining his latest piece after some dealings with a "Chilean mercenary force specializing in selling rare antiquities." I may have the exact quote wrong, but you get the idea.
There is an evil doctor that wants to unleash some hellions on earth (no reason given), experiments on children, super demon/alien-human hybrids, "photonic" bullets (the demon things can't stand sunlight) and, of course, Slater and Dorf to try to save everyone.
Jesus, I can't even being to wade through the clichéd elements. The script badly needed reworking to narrow the focus and provide SOME depth. I mean, why is this evil scientist so damn evil? Oh right, humans are doomed and he is just trying to save the human race. I guess he's infected? How did that happen? Oh right he has one of the evil demon things in a cage and draws its blood to shoot into himself. How the hell did that happen? Why and where did he get the super slugs (oh yes, they use the old sci-fi stand by of parasitic aliens/demons which "fuse" with the spine of their host)Of course, Slater is, like Blade, half super-slug powered, but his slug "didn't fully fuse due to an electrical shock," thank god. Oh, and the people with these "fused" spines, have no idea they're half-alien/demon and act as good members of the community until some secret signal is given whence they turn killer zombies. Yeah we get zombies.
So lots of crap that could be entertaining, but none of it is.
Also, the ending is completely stupid as everything turns out to be not that big of a deal to fix in the first place...at least nothing a little dynamite can't handle.
Not the very worst thing you'll see, but a truly bad movie. |
| Date: 2008-03-20 20:27:19 |
User: Robert |
after reading all the dooming reviews, calling it the worst movie ever or boll the worst director i expected some good trash-fun ? la future war, but really: all this criticism has absolutely no valid base, its just far far from reality, its a whitchhunt
its not even a real trash-movie, there are a few scenes where you may roll eyes or laugh like a sudden sex scene riot along with a quite inappropriate "7 seconds" in the background, but there are many things the movie does just right, even though it takes a lot of inspiration from existing movies of the genre you hardly ever get the impression of really stolen or already seen scenes, the creators even experiment with own methods of staging
the camera-work is really well done most of the time, its versatile and entertaining, sometimes its even experimental - partly successful, for example the distorted zooms
same for the action-scenes, they are also very well done, its good martial arts and has some unique ideas
a part where this movie really shines is the staging of the monsters, in this regard it achieves much more than many competitors of the genre, it doesn't have to avoid the comparison with movies like "the relic" here, the beasts look excellent and are superb animated, some scenes are really among the best you can find in any of the alien-clones, for example when professor Hudgens stands on a hill sending out his "dark minions", a really nice scene, or the look into a deep cave filled with monsters, or a beast going up in steam - its really excellent, even more if you consider the less than mediocre budget of this movie
the acting is absolutely sufficient, slater remains a bit colorless, Reid has some short weak moments, but overall its just fine for this kind of movie, even some extras can keep a good straight face which is not the rule
except for a somewhat edgy flow, some awkward scenes and a slightly clumsy introduction there is absolutely nothing wrong with this, you see that boll is still exercising but its solid monster-movie entertainment nevertheless
boll-movies have become a shrine for bad movie-jokes, but they all get less funny once you ve seen the movies because they are just not that bad, its no "future war" and boll is no ed wood, maybe its because there is a German director buying American actors which annoys the people, or maybe they just continue what disappointed fans of the game started, its funny how even the "big critics" join the group of bashing monkeys but well: a study says that 60 percent of the internet users use message boards only to relieve their frustration... :o)
"the breed", "reign of fire", "starship troopers 2", "species 2", "alien vs predator", "28 days later" ... after all there are a lot of similar flawed, as bad and worse movies with higher budgets out there, alternatively just switch your TV on and watch one of the countless right wing series like "4400" or "surface"...
if you are a fan of the monster genre and like to see some unique and well animated beasts i really recommend this one, the movie around it is entertaining enough |
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