Tuesday, July 22, 2008
I should probably lose a few points on my K2K for this, but I can't help myself. I was too intrigued by the awfulness of the trailer to resist. This one looked like it was venturing into Uwe Boll territory.
Sadly, it's not nearly as funny as House of the Dead (although maybe more watchable than Alone in the Dark), which is still the gold standard for modern, so-bad-it's-hilarious movies. But it does have its moments, especially some really poorly conceived, awkwardly executed special effects that can't really be described. Although actually, the FX, while never really good or convincing looking, were for the most part enthusiastically and competently done.
The biggest problem is that the most glaring flaws aren't ones that make you laugh out loud. It's more like weird structural things. In the beginning of the movie, a character has an extended flashback to a time when someone else told him a story, and that story turns into an extended flashback of something that happened 500 years ago, and then within that story/flashback there is a brief flashback. That's more funny in retrospect than it is watching the movie. Oh well.
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