charleservin
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There are moments of brilliant so-bad-it's-goodness, but most of the movie is a nauseatingly badly made mess. Actors constantly flub lines, the camera never seems to be framed correctly, the story is almost non-existent, there are numerous weird psychedelic parts for no reason, the writer/director/star is an ugly balding man... it's just so terrible. I'd recommend NOT watching it, since I felt kind of like I had the flu the entire time.
This is an action movie with so many absurd choices that it becomes hilarious only a few moments in. The sound is insanely over the top, with booming punches and swishes every time someone walks or turns their gun. Every choice made by the characters makes no sense. The acting is horrible, like the friar tuck-esque maidservant for the princess, but what really sets it apart is hinted at in the opening text, which says "Someplace, where the future meets the past...".
Basically this is free rein for them to raid their production offices and costume department for anything and everything that they can get their hands on. After all, they had a lot of extras to dress up. For example, one character looks like he's from the middle ages while another standing next to him is wearing khakis and a dress shirt. This happens constantly throughout the movie. Also many "newsies" make their appearance.
The technology is inconsistent as well, with ATVs and helicopters mixed in with horse-drawn carts. The movie was shot in Bulgaria, and most of it is either in old beat up buildings or in the woods. All of the evil general's military vehicles have "666" taped on the side.
I believe that they added the "Someplace, where the future meets the past..." line in editing, because there was literally no other way to have the movie make any sense at all. It's fun to try to piece together how and why they made the choices that they did.
Overall it's a hilariously acted, hilariously produced gem of a trash movie and it kept my attention the entire time. It's so dumb and so laden with cliches that it's almost painful, but that's the hallmark of a really good bad movie.
Basically this is free rein for them to raid their production offices and costume department for anything and everything that they can get their hands on. After all, they had a lot of extras to dress up. For example, one character looks like he's from the middle ages while another standing next to him is wearing khakis and a dress shirt. This happens constantly throughout the movie. Also many "newsies" make their appearance.
The technology is inconsistent as well, with ATVs and helicopters mixed in with horse-drawn carts. The movie was shot in Bulgaria, and most of it is either in old beat up buildings or in the woods. All of the evil general's military vehicles have "666" taped on the side.
I believe that they added the "Someplace, where the future meets the past..." line in editing, because there was literally no other way to have the movie make any sense at all. It's fun to try to piece together how and why they made the choices that they did.
Overall it's a hilariously acted, hilariously produced gem of a trash movie and it kept my attention the entire time. It's so dumb and so laden with cliches that it's almost painful, but that's the hallmark of a really good bad movie.
This movie does nothing well or new or interesting on any level. It's not even bad enough to be good. It's the movie equivalent of store brand soda. It's just bad. It should not exist. In a perfect world, it wouldn't.