Let's be clear right up front: this is a lousy movie. From the acting to the action, dialog to music, it's all bad filmmaking. Yet there is something watchable about this slow motion train wreck.
JCVD can't act. Everyone else performs down to his level. If there was a director on the set, he wasn't directing.
The dialog is just bizarre. It sounds like one of those spaghetti western bad overdubs. Nothing anyone says makes the slightest sense.
Pacing is all over the place. Scenes plod along to no conclusion or race ahead to no conclusion, sometimes at the same time.
The actors are made of cardboard. Despite what the writers would have us believe, one dimensional weirdness is not a personality. The religious folks are only religious folks. The rednecks are only rednecks. The morons are only morons. The eye candy are only eye candy. And do on. You know what everyone is going to say and do before they do.
The closest films to this are the Golan Globus Chuck Norris cheapies. Those too are watchable, but if you stop and think about it you can't explain why.
Four stars.
JCVD can't act. Everyone else performs down to his level. If there was a director on the set, he wasn't directing.
The dialog is just bizarre. It sounds like one of those spaghetti western bad overdubs. Nothing anyone says makes the slightest sense.
Pacing is all over the place. Scenes plod along to no conclusion or race ahead to no conclusion, sometimes at the same time.
The actors are made of cardboard. Despite what the writers would have us believe, one dimensional weirdness is not a personality. The religious folks are only religious folks. The rednecks are only rednecks. The morons are only morons. The eye candy are only eye candy. And do on. You know what everyone is going to say and do before they do.
The closest films to this are the Golan Globus Chuck Norris cheapies. Those too are watchable, but if you stop and think about it you can't explain why.
Four stars.