androidarmy

I gave it three stars because the storyline actually wasn't that bad, even though it was really quite cliché. The story had potential. The problem with this film was the lead actor. He had no charm. He had no charisma. He could not act. And he was totally miscast for this film. I would imagine that one of the reasons that he played the lead was because he was the executive producer of the film. Don't know how that worked out. The other actors weren't that bad at all. Fairly good acting all around. But the guy who played Eli stunk up the film like a dead skunk in the middle of the road. Frankly, I can't believe I watched the entire film. It's like you just have to find out what happens even though it's excruciating to watch. I think one of the reasons that I'm the first to review is because not enough people watched the film all the way through. If it hadn't been for Jeff Kober, I would've stopped watching after about 20 minutes.

After a few scenes that are two minutes or longer watching and hearing the clump, clump of a big guy dressed up like a zombie walking around in a forest killing people, you start to wonder "How much longer am I gonna have to sit here and watch and hear the clump, clump of this big guy walk around the forest killing people?" The acting is really subpar. There is no discernible plot. I just really don't understand how this movie gets such good reviews. Must be people who know the producers are bombarding the critic sites with good reviews. Extremely low budget. Music is not that great. Cinematography leaves an awful lot to be desired. This is not a good movie. Don't waste your time.

...or let's not and say we did. When I first noticed no dialogue, I thought maybe this is just going to be temporary. However, it soon became clear that this film was going to be completely void of any dialogue between the characters. I think one of the gangsters mumbled "f*** you" toward the end of the picture, but I wouldn't really say that that was dialogue. I was half expecting Marcel Marceau to pick up a phone at some point and utter the word "non." I started thinking that perhaps halfway during filming one of the actors lost their voice and the production company decided to just eliminate the dialogue to make it work. In other words, this dialogue-free production was such a bad idea, I believe it would have had to be a desperate one.

Based on the synopsis I read, I didn't expect much more than a shoot 'em up action movie with a lot of gritty inner-city hip-hop music and blaring gunfire. I probably would not have gone for a movie like this, but I was bored and I like Joel Kinnaman, but I usually prefer to hear him speak.

Another goof I noticed was that when Brian delivers the greeting card to the detective, the detective just picks it up and puts fingerprints all over it. Even if he already knew who it came from, this was still evidence. Even I know that you don't put your fingerprints all over evidence and I'm dumb as a box of rocks.